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...Steven Pinker were redesigning Harvard’s core curriculum, all undergraduates would have to read three philosophers—Descartes, Locke, Rousseau—and then reject much of what they learned. In The Blank Slate, released last month, MIT’s renowned cognitive psychologist plies the tools of his discipline to dispel pervasive myths about human nature. The book’s title comes from Locke’s famous belief that a baby’s mind is a “blank page” bereft of knowledge about the world. For Pinker, this utterly...
...joined more than 60 supporters from her party’s network of volunteers in a rally last night on the third floor of Emerson Hall. The event, hosted by the Harvard Greens, was the party’s last campaign rally before elections and drew almost the entire slate of its state-wide candidates...
...every Democrat is standing in the way of national security, taking away from the president’s ability to lead our nation in a time of crisis. Each claim is equally bogus, but worse than the inaccuracy is what such a one-tune rhetoric has resulted in: a slate of cookie-cutter candidates who are not individuals but mere members of their political parties...
Rockefeller, who had outspent Wolfe 15-to-1 through mid-October, has run on a slate of traditionally Democratic issues, like improving education and health care, protecting Social Security and creating new jobs...
There’s something striking about the row of zeros underneath Harvard’s record column. They conjure up an image of a blank slate, where all teams are equal and anything and everything is possible. They mark a time when the thrills of past victories and the disappointment of dreams cut short are discarded, as teams embark on the journey toward the ECAC playoffs...