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...always appeared to me that deeply religious people use their faith to explain away the horrors and inequities of the human experience. Believing that everything is part of God's master plan affords them the complacency of accepting the most terrible of tragedies. It is with the deepest respect that I read about the struggle of the real Mother Teresa, who, it now appears, had no such crutch. This was a person who soldiered on because she was a good and caring human helping her fellow man endure senseless suffering. If there is a God, Teresa is sitting...
Compared to these leading programs across the country, it is unfortunate that Harvard has chosen the role of laggard instead of leader. Harvard’s plan in Allston is to get all required City and State permits and begin construction of its new eight-acre Science Complex as soon as possible. Then Harvard tells us it will consider starting an after-school program staffed by volunteers, without budget or professional guidance, in an underused warehouse slated for demolition in a few years...
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...year after Harvard declared an end to its early admissions program, it seems that few institutions of higher learning are following suit. Approximately 65 percent of the 322 institutions surveyed by Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions have early admissions programs, and 99.5 percent of these schools plan to keep their early programs for the foreseeable future, according to the survey released last month. “We surveyed what is generally regarded as the top 300 schools,” said Brandon P. Jones ’00, the national director of SAT and ACT programs for Kaplan. He said...
...education community has been so overwhelmingly positive because nobody feels like they’re going to be excluded,” Norton said. Reville faces a full docket this fall, between the retirement of state education commissioner David P. Driscoll and the beginning of a 10-year plan to overhaul public education in Massachusetts. Still, Reville remain optimistic about the challenges balancing his duties at the GSE with his new position on Beacon Hill. “I’ll be teaching about what I do, since my courses concern policy and school reform,” wrote...