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...controversial Boston University journalism program to train Afghan rebels was part of a covert CIA propaganda effort, according to a published report this week...
...report, which appeared in the Boston Globe, says that the B.U. College of Communications got federal funds for a program to teach journalistic skills to Afghan freedom fighters. The program, which touched off faculty resignations at the school, was quashed after being criticized for violating press ethics...
Apparently U.S. News and World Report thinks so. According to this week's magazine, Harvard finished a lowly fourth place among universities in the eyes of academic deans and presidents, behind Yale, Princeton and the California Institute of Technology...
Perhaps U.S. News and World Report--affectionately known as U.S. Snooze and World Distort to many readers--shouldn't throw stones. Where would it finish in a survey of the best news magazines? Probably no better than where Harvard finished in its poll, and likely worse...
WHILE an arbitrary ranking of the "best big schools" has very little to do with where Harvard stands in reality, some of the report's other lists--namely, dropout rate and faculty quality--point out the areas where Harvard needs to improve. Each school has its own strengths, its own limits and its own areas to improve. A school billed as the world's most prestigious university should aim to live up to that reputation...