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...gender imbalance was only one of Harvard's many polar disparities between gender studies and the study of economics. Besides surface differences, economics and gender studies have surprisingly little student enrollment overlap, and in my experience students in each department have little or no experience in the other field. For example, few of my peers in the gender studies class had ever read an economic critique of Marx, although Marx's writings were discussed in the class. On the other hand, few economics concentrators have any desire to gain an appreciation of cultural discourse on gender...
...visits spacecraft and astronauts have made to the moon, they have limited their explorations to roughly equatorial areas, largely neglecting the polar regions. In 1994 NASA and the Pentagon launched a probe into a vertical lunar orbit that would reach those extreme latitudes...
...first things they looked for was water. Though moisture elsewhere on the moon would sizzle away under the unfiltered sun, the poles are different. Since the inclination of the moon is nearly upright, sunlight strikes it obliquely, plunging polar craters into darkness. Any water at the bottom of such depressions would flash-freeze at temperatures reaching -387[degrees...
These two approaches--"tokenism" and "universalism"--are polar opposites. "Tokenism" prescribes that we must permit the free and unfettered expression of religion in common spaces and that each faith must be free to operate on its own terms with no need to explain itself to the rest of the community. This may make individual religious groups feel comfortable, but it will lead to a fragmented house community. In addition, it is not fair to the many students who hold no strong allegiance to any religion. On the other hand, "universalism" places house community first, at the expense of real inter...
...world around him. In his experience, change was often something to fend off; it was born of forces of nature--the weather changed in the 1930s, turned Kansas into powder--or forces of history, the war that injured him. He thinks of the U.S. as a constant, a fixed polar star of unchanged and unchanging values, like duty, honor, country, God. And he is proud of being much the same way. The places he knows best and loves most are not in flux; certainly not Russell, Kansas, not Bal Harbour, Florida, or even the U.S. Senate, where spittoons can still...