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...that defines academic scholarship. I did not find this evaluation surprising. But seeing it written down alongside a grade made me question whether I had drifted through my degree without ever becoming “educated” in some essential sense. Had I, I wondered, somehow failed to obtain what Harvard’s Core Curriculum calls “the knowledge, intellectual skills, and habits of thought” of an “educated” person?It is an odd moment to worry about such things. The educational requirements that I and my fellow seniors fulfilled...
...Cuba must be juniors at the time and must have had at least six semesters of Spanish language training. These students are able to travel where few Americans have gone because of an institutionalized license granted by the U.S. Treasury Department. It took 18 months for Harvard to initially obtain the license, which must be renewed every year. In the fall semester of 2008, four Harvard students participated in this program. Christina M. Giordano ’10 was one of them. She said that although there were anti-American and anti-Bush sentiments in the media, the Cubans were...
...cell phones have become as valuable as drugs, if not more so. In a recent sting operation in Texas, an undercover officer was offered $200 by a prisoner for a cell phone and only $50 for heroin. California officials say inmates currently fork over between $100 and $400 to obtain a smuggled cell phone. It's easy to understand why cell phones command such a premium. Unlike the one-time sale of drugs, an inmate can rent out the same phone dozens of times to fellow inmates...
...life, including the lives of their own people. Baer suggests they would give false information under torture to "stop the pain" whereas persuasive techniques would encourage them to tell the truth. That doesn't make sense to me. I don't like torture either, but if it proves to obtain information that puts a stop to future bloodshed - as it has, according to experts - then I say please resume. John Stern, Grand Haven, Mich...
...John F. Kerry, and Representative Michael E. Capuano. “I believe it is in our best interest to educate all students to their full potential—it vastly improves their lives and grows our communities and economy.” Currently, undocumented immigrant children can only obtain permanent residency through their parents. The 2009 DREAM Act—or the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act—was first introduced in Congress in March with the support of senior Congressional Democratic leaders including Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Russ Feingold, an Kennedy. The legislation would...