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...little politicians have earned the ire and distrust of the public for placing electoral self-interest ahead of sound policies and a guiding hand, but clearly they do so with a certain comfort that any public backlash will be muted. Even the newly re-minted Warner-Lieberman bill, which aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2050, appears destined to fail...
...average self-reported GPA was 3.53, and the average for men and women did not differ significantly. The GPA for varsity athletes was .14 lower and .11 lower for those involved in single-sex social clubs, including final clubs, fraternities, and sororities...
...Most concentrations leave students to seek out an adviser on their own, a process that requires them to bounce from one office hours to another, peddling their idea. (Or as Jeffrey Miron, the director of undergraduate studies for economics, put it, “the system is self-motivated and decentralized—like much in economics.”) For those without pre-existing relationships with professors (most small classes are taken during junior and senior years, especially in large departments), the prospect of finding an adviser can be especially daunting...
...France, President Nicolas Sarkozy introduced a pedagogical emphasis on the Holocaust to his country’s classrooms. But while this attempt to address and correct one of history’s great crimes demonstrated laudable self-awareness, it also had the character of a stunt: Where was the mention of France’s more recent oversteps in colonial Algeria? Perhaps education design should be left to the educators, and not the politicians. It is, of course, difficult to ask or impel any major power to come to grips with its past errors, but the nearer states draw...
...ethical question it truly is. The institutionalized arrests, torture, imprisonment, murder, and other repressive features of the South African system have been discussed and re-discussed for over a decade, in these pages and elsewhere. The only remaining question is: When will the Corporation act on its self-avowed opposition to the atrocities committed daily by the South African government? By initiating a protest tactic which is centuries old but entirely new to the Harvard community, the fasters not only reinforce the pressure for divestment on the Corporation but emphasize the seriousness of their moral commitment and invite the Corporation...