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...There was no need to wrap up memories in every senior event because being human at Harvard means finding one’s interests and values while realizing the limits of time. It means giving up some events and activities to make room for others and acknowledging that what one has is valuable...
...author wants to draw the wrong conclusion from the fact that simplified models get things wrong (even dramatically wrong). No one denies that we need to better understand and communicate the limitations of data, that it is crucial to guard against unjustified trust in our preferred models (perhaps the author forgets that before the crisis, there were plenty of critics of the efficient market hypothesis who were using data and simulation to predict pathological behavior in asset markets). But a data-driven, formal approach to making policy decisions is quite frankly the best we can do and therefore essential...
Some have argued that the use of the Taser was justified in the Phillies case because it will deter other fans from engaging in similar behavior. However, just one day after the baseball incident, another Phillies fan ran onto the field, suggesting that the Tasing may have had the opposite effect. In fact, the popularity of the footage from the Phillies incident on YouTube—where the user comments largely poke fun at the incident—is somewhat troubling, since it suggests that the public does not take Tasers as seriously as it should...
...brought very high expectations to the school,” said current Law School Dean Martha L. Minow, who enthusiastically endorsed her predecessor’s nomination on Monday. “She held no one more than herself to high standards. So ‘We’re fine, we don’t have to be stepping it up’—that attitude was over when she was dean. Some people didn’t really like it, some people disagreed...
Clark faced an ideologically divided faculty during his time as Dean, and one of his major accomplishments was soothing the rifts that would pave the way for some of Kagan’s most transformative initiatives...