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...Victoria is pretty, very thin, 13 and loves to dance. She has been en pointe for a year. Hers is the collected smile, extended neck and slightly out-toeing gait of a serious ballerina. I can guess why she's in my office: her foot hurts. She walks without pain, goes to school, even gets through gym class pretty comfortably-but she can't dance. A big dance recital is coming up-dancers from the famous ballet company in the city will be there to watch her-and she wants to be "back to normal" by then...
...fellows of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s top governing board, and three members of the less influential Board of Overseers. But Sidney Verba ’53, who chairs the 13-member faculty advisory group, said that search committee members have been talking frequently and seriously with his group and given it an “authentic role” in the process. “I’m hoping that the involvement in our committee and the fact that it has a voice winds up legitimizing what the Corporation is doing,” said...
Today, the Faculty will begin to take on the central and difficult question of what students should know to graduate from Harvard. The Task Force on General Education has produced a serious and thoughtful answer to this question. It has proposed that the College train students for citizenship in a global society and, to that end, require students to take courses in ten diverse areas from reason and faith to analytical reasoning. I fear, however, that the proposal goes too far in rejecting the Core Curriculum’s “approaches to knowledge” in favor...
...After the serious defeats in last week’s elections, it remains to be seen if President George W. Bush will stubbornly cling to his rhetoric on spreading liberty across the globe. Iraq has failed, and the population has caught on, but the battle to hold the White House responsible for its Middle Eastern mess is far from over and the media’s ongoing failure to analyze critically promises to spoil the occasion yet again...
...Intelligence, police, and Interior Ministry officials asked to comment on the case - and how such serious allegations could be made without the suspects having the chance to examine and respond to them - deferred to Lebrot. Lebrot's office declined to comment, citing pending litigation by Rabehi and seven colleagues who challenged the revocations in court. Pending the court ruling expected next week, Rabehi and another plaintiff had their badges returned to them - proving, Rabehi said, "the authorities acknowledge the information against us was wrong. How can you not doubt the other cases...