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Prum, who has fought successful battles in other communities, says grassroots activism simply does not work in presentday Cambridge...
...fictional director A. (Harvey Keitel) is wandering through the war-torn landscape of the presentday Balkans, Angelopoulos recalls the Homeric journey of Odysseus--a masterful blend of past and present suggesting the inseparability of the two. Fortunately, however, the film is not an exercise in "updating a myth": although many characters from the "Odyssey" are evoked, the film adopts a sufficiently individual identity and a notably different conclusion...
According to a source in the investmentindustry, however, if the return to the presentday was 11 percent it would be "extremely poor"because the stock market has increaseddramatically since March...
This brings me to Harvard's use of Title IX in reverse. The intent of Title IX was to redress iniquities that have arisen as a result of an institution's history of discrimination. All the institutions that have generated our presentday Western reality and values have such a history. Title IX not only exempts programs designed "to overcome the effects of past exclusion," but "requires remedial action to overcome the effects of previous discrimination." I honestly do not understand how Title IX can be warped to apply to the selection of feminists and/or women for the kinds of courses...
Since this is so, Harvard needs more--in some cases better--teachers. President Eliot once said that "two kinds of men make good teachers--young men and men who never grow old." Applied to presentday academic ranks, this means more tutors, more permanent appointees with a youthful outlook and personality. And it seems this type of teacher is most frequently found in the "middle group." Since the University chose to adopt a long run attitude towards promotions among the faculty, it would do well to consider the effects of its policy on the modern source of Harvard's greatness...