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...reported on the flaws of Harvard's core curriculum: bored students in overcrowded and undersupplied sections, given inflated grades by undertrained, undermotivated teaching fellows. These sections supplement watered-down lectures by a growing roster of professors, who are frequently confused about how to teach "approaches to knowledge" in their narrow fields of specialization...
...Dartmouth's academic rating plunges into the teens, Stanford's alumni become increasingly dissatisfied, and the pockets of former Columbia Lions grow shallow, it is comforting to still see John Harvard sitting astride the narrow data like a colossus...
...clear majority of Democrats oppose invasion also, and for a reason that will not cease to be relevant however U.S. troops go in. Their basic argument: Haiti is simply not worth the sacrifice of U.S. lives. Even an American diplomat on the scene concedes privately that in the "narrow, traditional" sense of the words, Haiti is not a vital interest for the U.S. It has no strategic position, no economic importance in terms of raw materials, markets or U.S. investment. Its army is no threat to the U.S., the Caribbean, Latin America or anybody except the unfortunate subjects...
Mahran knows that his own country, which crowds 62 million people into a narrow strip of arable land the size of the Netherlands, provides a sobering reality check for the idealistic premises of the Cairo accord. Egypt imports 70% of its food, yet each year it loses thousands of acres of farmland to urban sprawl and overuse. The nation will somehow have to find food, water and jobs for an additional 37 million people over the next 30 years...
According to Clarke, distinction is, well, just more diversity. But there's one small problem with her analysis: diversity and distinction are actually different words, with (surprise, surprise) different meanings. Clarke's idea of diversity as only encompassing racial and ethnic differences, while common-place, is too narrow a conception. To put things nicely, her view doesn't make a lot of sense...