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...should know personally and whose struggles we can and should work to alleviate. Students are not the whole answer to the challenges facing Harvard workers, but given that most of us are now back on campus, and as students we do not face the worries of being fired, we ought to be use our position to lobby for the rest of our community. Get involved with social-justice groups, write to administrators, attend rallies, and, most importantly, communicate with the people around...
...program tends to create...anxiety,” said English professor Louis Menand, who co-chaired the Gen Ed task force that wrote the curricular legislation. “One reason is that the general education program represents the Faculty’s collective judgment about what every students ought to know, and since professors are all trained in different disciplines, this can be a difficult conversation to have.” “We are just not accustomed to thinking about education in general terms,” he continued. “It?...
...nothing approach to reading. Who’s to say I’ll get bupkis out of “War and Peace” unless I can run my eyes over every single sentence? Instead of imposing self-defeating standards on ourselves, we burgeoning academics ought to feel comfortable engaging with a text to whatever degree we desire. Undergraduates deserve to make their academic careers their own—and to feel good about their performance even when it isn’t picture-perfect...
...doesn't help that, though long dead, the Harappan script sparks sometimes acrimonious debate in India over the nature of its origins. Scholars from southern India claim it ought to be linked to proto-Dravidian, the progenitor of languages like Tamil, while others think it is related to the Vedic Sanskrit of early Hinduism, the ancestor of Hindi and other languages spoken in India's north. And while cultural agendas within India have stymied collaborative efforts, the enmity between India and Pakistan has impeded archaeological breakthroughs. Ganeriwala, a desert site in Pakistan that possibly holds the ruins...
...Ridge, who now works at his own consulting firm, Ridge Global, writes in his book, with co-author Lary Bloom, that he finally decided to pen a political memoir because "I thought my fellow citizens and public officials needed to know about what happened, what ought to have happened, and what we must do in the future to secure America and to raise the issue of security well above politics." It is an ambitious task for a 280-page book, but Ridge seems to touch on all of the highlights - the bureaucratic turf battles, the political pressures, the massive challenge...