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More disturbing than the factual error was The Crimson reporter's intimation that in contesting my failing grade on a Math 1b make-up final examination, I am taking advantage of my disability to shirk my academic responsibilities. A correction printed in The Crimson on April 15 acknowledged that "the article also contained misleading inferences that the student failed to cooperate with the registrar's office in arranging for the exam." A mere correction buried on page four of The Crimson is, however, insufficient. In impugning my motives, the article prejudices the entire University community against any sensitivity...
...trying to be funny. A new book on Grant insists that he was bisexual and had a fling with -- goodness gracious! -- Howard Hughes. He also spied for Britain and used LSD. Charles Higham and Roy Moseley, authors of Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart, write, "The honest biographer cannot shirk the painful truth, even at the risk of being called deliberately sensationalist." Some risks are no risks...
...STUDENT who has the desire and gumption to take on a low-paying public service job after graduation should be able to do so, regardless of his or her indebtedness. And Harvard should not shirk its responsibility to encourage public-spiritedness in its students. But that doesn't mean the College should be paying for or subsidizing work and services that it is the responsibility of government--local, state and federal--to provide...
...PRESS KNOWS, however, that in a pinch it can blame the White House and shirk its own responsibility. While numerous legislators and other government officials outside the Administration have lambasted the disinformation campaign, few have asked how the reports got so much attention in the first place. Until the public begins holding the press responsible for its inadequate research and sensationalistic practices, the media will have no incentive...
...introduction of labor contracts may have the most far-reaching consequences. Under the lifetime-employment system, which the Chinese call the "iron rice bowl," workers can shirk their duties without fear of dismissal or reductions in pay. Their jobs are assigned, often regardless of ability or skill; indeed, most aspects of their careers are controlled by their bosses. "Because of these practices," says Qingdao Mayor Guo Songnian, "workers are slouchy and enterprises are sluggish. The job-contract system aims gradually but substantially to solve this problem...