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Placement in most subjects reflects the tremendous diversity of backgrounds that Harvard students bring to campus. The math geniuses take Math 55, the semi-geniuses take Math 25, and down the ladder to those with less background who enroll in Math Xa. People who speak fluent French are not placed in the same level as people with a smattering of it from high school. This all seems fairly intuitive, does...
...pages of the magazine. It seemed very unlikely that the president of the world’s most prestigious university, a former Cabinet member, a man profiled by the likes of “60 Minutes” and The New Yorker, would pay heed to a semi-weekly barrage of juvenile insults (“You’ll be begging for hippies to take over your office when we’re done with you!”) and insulting juvenilia (see illustration of Summers, paunch out, barraged by tennis balls) from the staff of a shoddily distributed...
Since its founding in 1913, the press has published countless award winners, including classics like John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice, and its choices can set trends in the publishing industry—like the move to semi-commercial publishing itself...
...liberality. In 1972 Oscar welcomed back Charles Chaplin, another distinguished foreigner who liked his girls young. It happens that "The Pianist" was a perfect comeback film: a Holocaust film that (like "Schindler's List") is about a Jew outliving Hitler with the help of the goyim; and a semi-autobiography of Polanski, himself a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and after all these years eligible to be considered not a cunning predator but a wily victim. It's also a good movie in Hollywood epic style: a precise, conventional melodrama that teems with acute observations on the behavior of besieged...
Lawrence has also dealt Jantzen a heartbreaking loss of his own. Last year he defeated Jantzen in the semi-finals en route to his NCAA championship, but the early-season losses to Larkin have caused him great worries about his chances to repeat as a national champion. Even themat.com has picked Jantzen to face Larkin in the final bout...