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...University’s Center for Ethics, Dennis Thompson is resigning from the post, partly so that now interim president Bok can name his replacement. Thompson, also the Whitehead professor of political philosophy, will step down at the end of the academic year. Bok will personally oversee the search for a replacement. “Part of the reason [for stepping down] is that this year the Center is celebrating its twentieth anniversary, and I thought it would be an appropriate time to step down,” Thompson said. “But the other reason is Derek...
...scores, are not the sole criteria for college admissions. Colleges are first and foremost academic institutions, but when a college chooses each new class, it does so with the knowledge that not everybody who graduates will be launched into an academic career. A college such as Harvard is searching for students who will be leaders in all spheres of the world, and that search requires picking applicants from all walks of life. Moreover, colleges seek to balance their classes with students of all backgrounds, which is difficult to do if some minorities are not sufficiently represented...
...already tragic part of the world. Pity Iraqis like al-Anbari whose plight goes unnoticed by their government and the larger world. I hope your story will make more readers stop and wonder how the people of Baghdad must feel when U.S. forces fan out across their city in search of one missing American, when not even their neighborhood police can be counted on to search for kidnapped Iraqis...
...There is certainly less tragedy and more of a sense of possibility at Harvard these days, and no one would disagree that things are easily much better. Yet the proliferation of internet sites among gay students, like boredatlamont.com and craigslist.org (search "Lamont" in their Boston personals section) does suggest a larger marginalization, a kind of failure to be integrated meaningfully into the larger community...
...Previous editorials in The Search for a President: an editorial series Educating the Educators To the Presidential Search Committee