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...smart and careful about which policies they emphasize. Honor codes that establish a community that is intolerant of all forms of cheating—from unpermitted collaboration to buying and selling papers—will be effective and will become valuable tools to thwart cheating; such policies should use peer pressure to make academic dishonesty shame-worthy. Honor codes that boast heavy-handed “one strike, you’re out” punishments, however, will be counterproductive to creating the necessary atmosphere to criticize and reform cheaters...
...They were put through the scanner, and his briefcase was searched, and His Eminence started to give off anger fumes. He sighed deeply and shook his head at the insanity of it all. But the woman scanning the shoes saw something, and a couple of colleagues came over to peer at the screen. And the Pasha seemed to lose it right there, and when a security guy told him to boot up his laptop, he said, "Boot it up yourself," and tossed in a common vulgarity. And then he was asked to come and sit in a blue chair...
...mysteries are settled, of course, and Hare and other behaviorists are trying to devise tests to peer yet deeper into canine cognition. The geneticists too are sharpening their tools, looking to more powerful gene probes--eventually even the complete sequences of the dog genome. Dog lovers, meanwhile, don't much care how the transition happened--just as long as it did. --Reported by Deirdre...
Colleagues at Harvard and at peer institutions described Clark’s contributions to the school in both healing serious rifts within the school and sketching out a direction for the school’s future...
...know about the world. I also want to be a thoughtful, thorough person and find that such desires often lead me away from opinions that can be easily explained over lunch. When looking at an issue—literary, political or school-policy related—I like to peer at it from a number of perspectives, to recognize and wrestle with its ambiguities. I realized recently that I like to write columns like I tend to write poetry...