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...sweep and swell into all sorts of new directions and dimensions. It will encounter Ambiguity. Ambivalence. Algebra. Your body is about to be taken over by aliens, behave in ways you can't control, grow in ways you can't contain. At times your feet will seem nowhere near the ground. I fell down the stairs a lot in middle school. Basic coordination was often beyond me. Confusion is part of the curriculum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Graduates, Go Forth and Multiply! | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...nation struggles to cope with $4-a-gal. gas, what are we to make of Rainwater's decision? Is it a sign that the near doubling of oil prices over the past eight months is about to reverse itself? Does it mean we can all breathe big sighs of relief and go back to gassing up our Hummers with abandon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Oil Bubble Burst? | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...Dershowitz physically. In 2008, it was a professor from outside of PED who ultimately invited Trivers anew. Notwithstanding Dershowitz’ dramatic claim to have posted his karate-expert secretary at his office door to protect him, Trivers delivered a brilliant and well-attended speech, which took him nowhere near Dershowitz or his office. That Trivers was disinvited in the first place remains an unwashed disgrace to Harvard, unprecedented since the McCarthy era with regard to any issue other than Israel-Palestine...

Author: By J. lorand Matory | Title: What Do Critics of Israel Have to Fear? | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...Students in pass/fail classes should be allowed to switch back to letter-grading until near the end of the semesters, as is done at Columbia, where students have until the ninth week to decide. The current deadline for changing grading at Harvard is the fifth Monday, at which point students still have little idea how they well are likely to do. So students who have chosen to take a class pass/fail for “insurance” are then forced to take the “pass” on their transcript, regardless of how well they...

Author: By Melissa Q. Mccreery | Title: The Intimidation Barrier | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...Praising Clinton and attacking McCain. This is what the near term will be about for Barack Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Speech, Obama Heals, Then Attacks | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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