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...vacate my seat, you may ask, if I take issue with your style, substance and mission to fracture the Republican Party? The reason is simple: leaving the talk would have meant giving up a rare opportunity to peer into the bottom of the American political barrel and the outright perversion of dialogue and the English language. Note that I didn’t stay because I was outraged or secretly thrilled by your audacious accusations and asides; the experience was more like staring at a car wreck. I don’t know, Ms. Coulter, if you thought...
...act—originally passed in 1965 and last renewed a decade ago—is a catch-all educational reform, dealing with everything from student financial aid to campus safety reporting to peer-to-peer file-sharing...
...have stolen sentences from at least six recent biology papers. These were originally identified online in the science blog Pharyngula and further instances were found using Turnitin.com, a Web site devoted to plagiarism prevention. He expressed disbelief as to how the article could have been published into a respected, peer-reviewed journal. “Proteomics is a decent, mid-level journal; not the place you would send your very best work, but not someplace you would be embarrassed to publish in, either,” McDonald said. LaBaer said that it was surprising that the journal did not discover...
...first visited Harvard, I thought the Science Center was ugly, and the buildings in the Yard all looked the same. Having just beheld sculptured gothic at Yale and Princeton, I was left wondering why Harvard’s functional architecture didn’t impress as much as its peer institutions’. But I see now that the less grandiose aesthetic of this campus is not a failure of imagination but an authentic chronicle of its long past and an integral part of the college’s unique character...
...until 1997, and his son Michael J. Scalise ’10 is currently an undergraduate. David A. Thomas, a senior associate dean and the director of faculty recruiting at the Business School, recalled Scalise’s skill as an administrator. “Bob is probably without peer in the University in terms of understanding the educational mission of the institution and how to organize the staff and administrative functions to support that in a frictionless way,” Thomas said. —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...