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...democratization of administrative decision-making, the Coalition has to realize that Harvard is not a democracy and never should be. As students, we pay tuition, not taxes, and while we ought to be able to expect a certain level of attention to our needs as members of the college community, we should not expect a hand in the decision-making of the college itself...
...over Summers’ remarks on women in science. But a semester of engaging with Summers has shown us his commitment to teaching and scholarship. He adopted a provocative and challenging approach to difficult questions in the spirit of expanding the bounds of our knowledge. And this, above all, ought to be the primary goal of any academic institution...
...over Summers’ remarks on women in science. But a semester of engaging with Summers has shown us his commitment to teaching and scholarship. He adopted a provocative and challenging approach to difficult questions in the spirit of expanding the bounds of our knowledge. And this, above all, ought to be the primary goal of any academic institution...
People who run distances they ought to be driving aren't necessarily superior athletes. They are actually a bit freaky physically, born with the kind of biomechanics that can take repeated pounding. At 5-ft. 9-in. and 155 lbs., Karnazes isn't built like those marathon beanpoles. His frame is rock solid, the result of a cross-training routine that includes windsurfing to build upper-body strength, which helps him in the long runs. But even with the right genes and conditioning, ultras can count on plenty of joint pain, cramps, exhaustion and vomiting...
...Lawrence H. Summers’ remarks is a debate over the nature of the presidency of Harvard. One view is that our president should be a pleasant figurehead who presides over a growing endowment and speaks donation-related platitudes. The other view, which I favor, is that our president ought to be an active intellectual, someone who participates fully in the scholarly life, engages in academic debates, and sometimes even throws out hypotheses that are wrong...