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...protection for the dignity of plants. Yes, that’s right, Switzerland—a country run by adults—has granted the right of dignity to plants.The Monty-Pythonesque task of defining plants’ dignity was given, of course, to a twelve-person committee of scholars??the Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH). The committee rose to the occasion by producing a 22-page report entitled: “The dignity of living beings with regard to plants. Moral consideration of plants for their own sake,” which went...
...market and the equations economists use to describe it,” said Orfield, a renowned expert on civil rights and education who left Harvard in 2006. “Arrogance combined with disdain for other knowledge and experience do not work well.” Still, other scholars??particularly those with a more economic bent—came to Fryer’s defense yesterday. Former University President Lawrence H. Summers called EdLabs “one of the most important initiatives that Harvard will launch in this decade.” “The quality...
...They invited minority scholars??including Ogletree, who had graduated from the Law School in 1978—to give lectures based on Bell’s book. The purpose was to demonstrate to the Law School administration that there were sufficient “qualified” minority scholars to choose from...
...reflects a longstanding tension between the study of literature as something treated objectively (language) and its study as something subjective and inspired (Literature with a capital L). Since the creation of English departments in the late 19th century, “pedants” or “scholars?? have shared duties with “dilettantes” or “critics”—often angrily. Questions of methodology can lead to fierce infighting—which in turn can lead to hideous departmental nomenclature...
...Admission Scholars??a tutoring program staffed by Harvard students—has been providing this support to Ramsey and other students at Madison Park since the program’s inception two years...