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...entire incoming class. It’s also not incredibly surprising, since Harvard’s name has such a big draw and because there are few reasons not to apply early in a non-binding system. But while maintaining the thoughtful decisions essential to admissions, Byerly Hall ought to accommodate the increase. If applicants are strong enough to require more decision-making resources—more time spent around an admissions table—they can potentially make Harvard’s next class even better...
Senator James Inofe of Oklahoma perhaps best encapsulated the Christian Zionist agenda on the floor of Congress on March 4 of last year: “I believe very strongly that we ought to support Israel…because God said so…Look it up in the Book of Genesis…This is not a political battle at all. It is a contest over whether or not the word of God is true...
...wonder, why can’t Harvard keep itself and its professors out of trouble? It’s too late for Kissinger, but perhaps Summers ought to reevaluate the impeccable logic of working with a war criminal as a fellow diplomat. Plenty of wealthy and prestigious institutions manage to stay afloat without turning themselves into ivory bunkers manned by the certifiably wicked and/or corrupt. Maybe Harvard should get a task force going to look into how it’s done. Here’s a tip: Once they’ve been ruined, don?...
...recent events ought to motivate administrators at Yale to develop more acceptable means for debate on their campus. Unfortunately, Yale President Richard Levin, along with Yale College Dean Richard Brodhead, have not taken this view. Their assessment—that the attacks were isolated and anomalous incidents—refuses to acknowledge an obvious trend, and flies in the face of what some students say they feel is a climate of growing intolerance...
...were not trying to design the graduate school of the future, or even the curriculum for the school,” Klatell said. “We were trying to find out what journalists ought to be doing, and how to teach that over a long period of time...