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...race or religion or creed, has advanced admirably in the West, while in certain areas of the world homosexuals are still hanged, rape victims stoned, and women forbidden to drive a car or receive an education. It would be a mistake, in this précis of progress, to omit the cultural accomplishments that bestowed our civilization its sublimity. From Einstein’s almost mystical insights into the four-dimensional structure of space and time to the discovery of the universal template of organic life in the elegant double helix of the DNA molecule, Western science has illuminated...
...midterm, some professors allow their students to skip an assignment and add more weight to others. Lane Professor of the Classics and of History Christopher P. Jones, who teaches History 1085, “The Roman Empire, Augustus to Constantine,” allows his students to omit the midterm if they write approximately 15 additional pages for the term paper. Their final exam also counts for a larger percentage of their grade. “It’s just a matter of risk management,” Jones said. “The student...
...smoldering resentment in China; that spring, tens of thousands of Chinese took to the streets as mobs burned Japanese flags, overturned Japanese-made cars and threw rocks at Japan's consulate in Shanghai. Part of that animosity can be attributed to historical myopia on the Chinese side: mainland textbooks omit anything that casts the Communist Party in a bad light, glossing over, for example, the horror of the Cultural Revolution. Japan's wartime atrocity thus stands out starkly as the great injustice of China's modern history. And with nationalist education increasing in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Square...
...House of Lords Appointments Commission. The body was concerned that the men had recently handed over large amounts of cash to the ruling Labour Party. A spokesman for one of the men, entrepreneur Sir Gulam Noon, claimed Noon had been encouraged by Blair's chief fundraiser Lord Levy to omit details of a $460,000 loan to the party from his application...
...were blocked by the House of Lords Appointments Commission. The body was concerned that the men had recently handed over large amounts of cash to the ruling Labour Party. A spokesman for one of the men, entrepreneur Sir Gulam Noon, claimed Noon had been encouraged by Levy to omit details of a $460,000 loan to the party from his application...