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...going to put all that work into a project, it ought to be a topic you are passionate about.” This oft-repeated piece of advice poses key practical questions about the uses and limits of belief in writing a thesis. What role does belief have in forming hypotheses and persevering through the long phase of research? And at what point do one’s own opinions and passions become a liability? A good thesis writer should be dispassionate and self-critical, but no thesis writer can be apathetic. Faith in one’s self...
When something seems utterly unbelievable, it perhaps ought not to be believed. Dutch television broadcaster BNN provoked an international uproar this week when it announced plans to air a live TV game show pitting rival kidney patients against one another in pursuit of a donor organ. But when the show ran on Friday, it proved to be a hoax...
What is perhaps even more regrettable than the unfair treatment that some have given the Kirshners is The Crimson’s proposition that the University ought to precipitately give masters the boot whenever they are supposedly judged by students not to be adding enough to the social life of houses...
...front of us,” said Seidel, who went to college in Berkeley, Calif., a city noted for its environmentalism. “We’re the perfect size, we have plenty of resources, and we have lots of bright ideas. Cambridge ought to set a model for other cities to follow...
...central administration, each of the University’s 10 faculties funds its own library independent of the center.In the past, Verba has often made a tongue-in-cheek comparison of Harvard’s structure to that of the Soviet Union, noting that it “ought to be equally ungovernable.” He draws an analogy between Soviet republics and Harvard’s different “tubs”, each of differing sizes and resources—the Faculty of Arts and Sciences being like Russia, the largest, with other faculties like...