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...undergraduates are just a special breed of something—smart, hardworking, Red Bull-popping,” Fryer jokes. “I don’t like to admit how much I learn from my undergraduates. My discoveries are at chalkboards with undergraduates...
Regardless of the risks of giving up early admission, we are confident we are doing the right thing in placing the highest priority on the welfare of students. We hope that ending early admission sends a clear message to a highly-stressed generation that it is smart and sensible to slow down and consider carefully what is best for them in the long run—regardless of pressure by colleges, parents, or peers...
...tutors. Next year Sarkar is taking his interest in quantitative social science across the Atlantic. He will be studying evidence-based social work at Oxford with a Frank Knox fellowship, which provides for a year of study at any British Commonwealth university. Alright. So he’s smart. And if four years at Harvard have taught you anything it should be that being smart isn’t enough. And it certainly isn’t enough to qualify for The Crimson’s lucky seven. What should really make you feel inferior to Sarkar is the fact...
...Furthermore, I've found that some great reporting takes place in the blogosphere: Juan Cole's Iraq updates are invaluable, Joshua Micah Marshall's Talking Points Memo did serious muckraking about the U.S. attorneys scandal, and Ezra Klein (no relation) is excellent on health care. I love linking to smart work by others, something you just can't do in a print column...
...smart stuff is being drowned out by a fierce, bullying, often witless tone of intolerance that has overtaken the left-wing sector of the blogosphere. Anyone who doesn't move in lockstep with the most extreme voices is savaged and ridiculed-especially people like me who often agree with the liberal position but sometimes disagree and are therefore considered traitorously unreliable. Some of this is understandable: the left-liberals in the blogosphere are merely aping the odious, disdainful-and politically successful-tone that right-wing radio talk-show hosts like Rush Limbaugh pioneered. They are also justifiably furious...