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McKay Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering Ana J. Barros said she felt that this aspect was the portion of the letter that resonated most strongly with Faculty...
Kirby also devoted a significant portion of his letter to the issue of free speech. He affirmed his commitment to maintaining an environment in which professors and students feel they can freely express their views. As examples of Harvard’s policies on freedom of speech, he pointed to the Guidelines on Free Speech, adopted by the Faculty in 1990, and a statement by University President Lawrence H. Summers from this fall in which he said that “we are ultimately stronger as a university if we together maintain our robust freedom of groups on campus...
...Surprisingly, as the line aged, a large portion of the initial fanbase remained loyal. But primary colors and flashy battles no longer remain the draw for these fans, many of whom now have children of their own. The enduring attraction of the Transformers series seems less about simple nostalgia than the unique take on a universal premise. The creators of the comic and television series painted a breathtaking picture of a fantastical world populated by living machines fighting a war that had raged for millions of years. Politics, drama, humor, and a human-like empathy were woven into a tapestry...
...Diamond spend a good portion of the evening talking about beer? The German beer industry is one of the ways in which he has expanded his theory in the past seven years. “We love German beer,” he said, because it is delicious and unique. As Diamond explains, German beer is generally micro-brewed, and most of it is consumed within twenty miles of where it was produced. This system is extremely inefficient, so German beer is both expensive and infrequently exported (American beer, on the other hand, is produced on a much larger scale...
...these syllabi inevitably contain the section entitled “Course Requirements and Grading.” Normally the temptation is to gloss over this portion, with only the briefest of asides to one’s neighbor—“No midterm: I’m in” or “A paper during reading period: see you later.” Alas, while scanning the particulars of the class’s requirements, rarely do we challenge the overwhelming assumption on which the grades are divvied up. For the mistaken—if understandable?...