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...course, the cost of having an intellectually-engaged president is that occasionally he will emit ideas that are politically offensive or, in some cases, just plain wrong. After all, as Karl Popper taught us, providing refutable hypotheses is at the very core of scientific progress. I would hesitate to count the number of incorrect hypotheses that I come up with in the course of a year. Luckily, I have colleagues and students who point out my errors. If we are to have a scholar-president, we must treat his false hypotheses in the same way that we treat the false...
Purists at Harvard can feast on the classics—plain, poppy, cinnamon raisin, et al—while the more adventurous can sink their teeth into a daring new addition: the “French Toast” bagel. Fringe favorites like veggie, multigrain, and chocolate chip remain, too, though under the aliases “chunky vegetable,” “honey grain,” and, well, “triple chocolate chip...
...take seriously the views expressed at Tuesday’s meeting and recognize their intensity,” Houghton wrote. “President Summers has made plain to us that he is listening carefully to the concerns that have been expressed. We are confident of his ability to work constructively with the faculty and others to advance the goal that all of us share—ensuring that Harvard’s academic programs are as good as they can be, and that our community of faculty, students, and staff is as strong...
...loses sight of the fact that there are other kids in the class too. "I could summarize in one sentence what teachers hate about parents," says the head of a private school. "We hate it when parents undermine the education and growth of their children. That's it, plain and simple." A taxonomy of parents behaving badly...
...hundreds of thousands of dollars, appealing to voters with lavish nightly lamb-and-rice banquets under canvas tents and ubiquitous billboards on Riyadh's modern highways. With political parties banned, the candidates broke roughly into four categories: urbane liberals like al Ammari; Islamic fundamentalists like Rashodi; Saudi tribesmen and plain opportunists - real estate developers were notable among those scrambling for council posts that might give them insights into zoning plans...