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Sandel's course, taught in Sanders Theatre, reviews classical and contemporary theories of justice. Students discuss present-day controversies such as quotas, surrogate motherhood and the military draft...
...come to venerate diversity like so many of their predecessors do now. We should be clear about our priorities as Harvard students, scholars, and administrators. Diversity should never be held in the same regard as truth; neither should we lose sight of our commitment to truth in our present-day obsession with diversity...
...achievement [at Harvard], and especiallyhis two years running the 'Poon certainly markedhim for comic success," said present-day Poonster,Fred de la Vega...
Arlen and Diane Chase, archaeologists at the University of Central Florida, believe their work at Caracol, in present-day Belize, also shows that escalating warfare was largely responsible for that ancient city's abrupt extinction. Among the evidence they cite: burn marks on buildings, the uncharacteristically unburied body of a six-year-old child lying on the floor of a pyramid, and an increase in war imagery on late monuments and pottery. "Of course we found weapons too," says Arlen...
...Duong interweaves flashbacks with the present time. The reader must visualize the story as the grown Hang travels on a train to Moscow to visit Uncle Chinh. The technique becomes annoying in the almost immediate realization that the past is much more interesting than the present. When Hang recalls the past, she seems to do so in graphic color; the present appears bleak and bland in contrast. Perhaps Duong uses this pattern intentionally, for it correlates to her own life, in which once hopeful and passionate support of communism has faded due to present-day realities...