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...part of the review, Pedersen and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz will contact “those concentrations that have recommended more than 10 percent of their graduating seniors over the past five years for highest honors to remind them that highest honors recommendations are meant to reward superlative work,” according to a letter to the Faculty circulated at yesterday’s meeting...
...friendly to the U.S.-led coalition. Pakistan's Urdu-language papers, Jang and Nawa-i-Waqt, have largely adopted a blame-the-victim approach to Sept. 11. "They regularly point out why some people are angry at America," says Riaz Ahmad, founder of the Pakistani American Congress. "They regularly remind everybody that if you solve the Israel-Palestine issue, those killings would stop...
...vilest character were it not for Trujillo's son Ramfis, a playboy known abroad for his affairs with Hollywood stars and at home for raping schoolgirls. Vargas Llosa plants Trujillo securely in his time and place, but the book's dictator also crosses temporal and physical boundaries to remind us that tyranny remains the source of Latin America's best fiction. Like Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch, The Feast of the Goat confirms Balzac's observation that the novel is the private history of nations...
...should expand this policy to things besides Christmas trees. The American flags widely displayed should be taken down, lest they offend our foreign students (a large minority) or any Jehovah’s Witnesses among us (before you argue that the flag is supported by our government, let me remind you that Christmas is, too). The rainbow flags which have occasionally appeared in a few dining halls should not have been placed there, as they offend the religious beliefs of those who, basing their opinions on the dictates of their religion, believe homosexuality to be wrong and do not want...
...winter holidays are here to remind us of the family and friends we have. The knowledge that the tragedy of September took some of these away still rides in the backs of our minds. It probably should. There’s nothing abnormal about feeling apprehensive, nothing abnormal about the inability to prevent the unthinkable, and nothing abnormal about America’s loss of confidence in her skyways. Bin Laden’s assault may have written its own rules of gaining the upper hand in war, but our reaction to it should not, even in an attempt...