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...school and FAS, undergraduate engineers could take advantage of the new school’s resources and faculty without actually ever being a part of it. Their continued, unmodified membership in the College and in FAS should ensure that Harvard doesn’t tumble down the slippery slope toward the kind of anti-liberal arts, segregated status quo at schools like Columbia, whose undergraduate engineers have institutional affiliations different from their peers’.The legacy of President Summers will add to Harvard’s ability to contribute to scientific inquiry through institutionalized collaboration and innovation...
...reality, life is unfair. And the fact is, as Harvard grads, life has been exceedingly fair to each and every one of us thus far. A Harvard diploma may prove a more maneuverable parachute than others, allowing us to land farther up the slope than our peers. But although we may enjoy a head-start, to stay ahead we’ll be forced to make the same compromises and fantastic exertions as everyone else. Five years from now, our Real World experiences will eclipse our Harvard experiences in importance, at least on our resumes...
...regret the promise he made last year, in order to secure Brown's enthusiastic participation in the general election campaign, to stand down by the end of this parliament, which is expected to end with elections in 2009. For a British Prime Minister fixing a term starts a slippery slope towards irrelevance, as the press, public and ambitious MPs start looking toward the next in line...
...story, “The Red Bow,” Saunders gives us perhaps the most explicit allegory of his vision of America’s slip down the slope toward war, following its misdirected push after 9/11—which he has discussed elsewhere in political essays. The protagonist, a nonspecifically small-town American father whose young daughter has been attacked and killed by a stray dog, moves from decking his town with FIGHT THE OUTRAGE posters to developing a “Three Point Emergency Plan” to sympathizing with his grieving wife?...
Each level at which the H-bomb raises a question seems to slope downward to the next level, descending from some of the broadest and oldest questions of ethics and theology to some of the most specific problems of practical politics and economics...