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Harvard is a university particularly enamored by statistics: a nine percent acceptance rate, a $35 billion endowment, and 15 million holdings in the library system. These are numbers that define and meter out the quantity of Harvard’s prestige. We are superior to our peer institutions, it seems, not on account of the efflorescence of our studies but on account of the upward slope of our trend lines. Immeasurable qualities are no longer important; in a quantified world, a given quality’s inability to cram into the cell of a spreadsheet has become a fatal flaw.And...
...PEER PRESSURE...
...Gates made clear he believes there is a need for the F-22. "It is principally for use against a near-peer in a conflict, and I think we all know who that is," he said coyly. He's referring to China, which today represents the only hope for both the U.S. Air Force and the Navy to justify spending billions of dollars on weapons initially designed to battle the Soviet Union. Since the end of the Cold War, the phrase "near-peer" has increasingly crept into Pentagon documents meaning a potential foe that could almost match...
...part of a great tradition of part-time cyborgs. The doctor who diagnosed me, using little lights to peer into my ears and nose because her eyes just weren’t strong enough? Cyborg. The woman who booked my appointment, using a telephone to talk to me instead of just yelling across campus to try to reach me? Cyborg. I confess that I felt some Asimov-flavored robot anxiety (something Lamp doesn’t treat) when I started to wonder where machine ends and the person begins...
...move forward with their plans for the organization and development of new museums, we echo the survey’s call for a permanent gallery for African art, though we find the claim of “archaic, racist views” to be extravagant. While many of our peer institutions like Yale and Stanford have permanent exhibits, many structural considerations seem to have hampered the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM). According to Daron J. Manoogian, the Director of Communications for HUAM, only one percent of the nearly 260,000 pieces in collection are displayed in galleries. Given the limited...