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...Groopman says. So if it's January, your doctor has just seen 14 patients with the flu and you show up with muscle aches and a fever, he or she is more likely to say you have the flu--which is fine unless it's really meningitis or a reaction to a tetanus shot that you forgot to mention...
...raised in a particular socio-political and ideological climate and have unique relationships with that background, literature will always be influenced by these factors and therefore is necessarily ideological.Even Gao’s “rejection of ideology” seems to be a political philosophy formed in reaction to the Chinese Communist Party and subsequent democratic movements.Gao’s thesis would be more powerful if presented as a personal conclusion drawn from his experiences, rather than as an argument for literature’s innate purpose. As Gao himself notes, “A writer does...
...Committee is great about releasing information on the voting record of shareholders, but doesn’t make information about where the endowment is invested publicly available,” says Orlowski (Harvard discloses the stocks in which it invests to the Securities and Exchange Commission.) This cautiously optimistic reaction to Harvard’s success is widespread. Spring Greeney ’09, chair of the Environmental Action Committee, is impressed that Harvard did so well in the rankings. But Greeney calls attention to the challenges the University must face in the near future. “The Allston...
...write a letter to Tufts President Lawrence S. Bacow saying that he should not invite “people who have contributed in one way or another to making racist and sexist attitudes more mainstream” to speak on campus. Much of the harsh reaction may be due to the fact that a recent Tufts speaker, affirmative action critic Shelby Steele, offended many with language some deemed to be racially insensitive. Nevertheless, the dismissive attitude that these students and academics have taken towards free speech is appalling; it utterly undermines the marketplace of ideas that forms the bedrock...
...Mani, also a student at the Kennedy School, said he did not have a strong reaction to the decision...