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...coverage, The Crimson has avoided the use of names or identifying e-mails that are likely to embarrass rank-and-file Isis members or women who are seeking admission to he club...
...Foreign Policy (FP) and Prospect magazines.This sparse showing comes after Harvard was a dominant presence in a list of the top 100 public intellectuals that the two magazines released in late September. Ten University affiliates were included in that group—the most of any institution worldwide.The final rankings, released last week, were determined by an online vote in which the public was able to rank their top five preferences from the list of 100. Following this winnowing, most Harvard professors who were initially included found themselves between the 20th and 50th rankings.Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics...
...were able to get another shot off of the rebound. For the game, Johnson registered five saves. But Johnson was outshone by his Brown counterpart, Jarrett Leech, who put up six saves as well as the shutout for the Bears. Leech came into the game holding the number two rank for saves, and is now tied for first—with the other Brown goalie David Semenza—for shutouts with two apiece. “They lost some very good senior players from last year’s team but this year they are more even throughout their...
Well you can’t, or at least not fully. But if success is to be rewarded, differences in the quality of schools have to be acknowledged. The reasons rankings exist at all is due to a great public need for information. If some colleges are better than others, how exactly is an uninformed person supposed to compare them? One might say that colleges must be judged subjectively or by how well they match individual preferences. But it’s difficult for prospective students to know what they want in a college, and so they are content with...
...comes across as something more like, “Violence: it’s all in good fun until someone gets seriously injured or killed.” As morals go, telling us that broken noses are fine while broken carotid arteries are not doesn’t exactly rank with “do unto others...