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...remaining 1.5 million acres make up the coastal plain which, according to the latest U.S. Geological Survey estimate, contain a mean of 7.7 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil (this excludes State and Native areas). Those opposed to the development of ANWR argue that the region would only produce 3.2 billion barrels, a strikingly conservative and low-end estimate. Even according to those statistics, however, ANWR would still be the second largest field ever discovered in the United States, second only to Prudhoe Bay. (Prudhoe Bay, though, is hardly a polluted oil field because the North Slope?...
While I enjoyed Alex F. Rubalcava’s tongue-in-cheek letter to incoming president-elect Lawrence H. Summers (Opinion, “Burning Money,” April 9), it also made plain to me a disturbing trend I have found in my own thinking and some other Harvard students I know as well: a feeling of entitlement. For example, subsidized coursepacks would be nice, but there is no reason we deserve them. They are on reserve at the libraries, and thousands of students at other schools, as well as a fair number of our own, can?...
What happened to the compassion that was supposed to go with Bush's conservatism? The campaign prepared us for some of this--candidate Bush made plain his intention to drill in the Arctic wildlife refuge, not a bad political calculus given America's preference for suvs over caribou. But no one thought his team would choose slaughterhouses over schoolchildren, even if only for a day. What connects these decisions is a preference for folks he knows: his oil-field buddies (mirrors of himself), corporate executives and captains of industry, from the Halliburton honcho to the Terminix franchisee. Some of them...
...never wrote the book, but others have examined those dark three days of April 196l and the chain of ignorance sustained by arrogance is plain to see. The best and brightest can be pretty dumb when self-adoration takes over...
...hate to break it to the supposed premier educational institution of the world, but many Harvard teachers just plain stink. The problem is especially acute in the sciences, where faculty members are almost exclusively recruited for their research prowess, with little regard for teaching credentials. Thus, while almost no one would doubt that the scientific expertise of our faculty is first-rate, the ability to teach—to impart information quickly, effectively, lucidly and entertainingly—by no means correlates with this zeal for research. The result is a faculty that spans the entire gambit of teaching quality...