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...search process is non-invasive and random. Bags are not opened—the handles and zippers are swabbed with a special test strip which is then fed through an explosives detection machine, according to Venturelli...
...paradox – at once celebrated and assailed. A host of popular writings from the 1980s on have charged universities with teaching too little, costing too much, coddling professors and neglecting students, embracing an “illiberalism” that has silenced open debate. A PBS special in 2005 described a “sea of mediocrity” that “places this nation at risk.” A report issued by the U.S. Department of Education last year warned of the “obsolescence” of higher education as we know...
...historians and computer scientists, lawyers and physicians, linguists and sociologists, but as citizens of a university, with obligations to this commonwealth of the mind. We must regard ourselves as accountable to one another, for we constitute the institution that in turn defines our possibilities. Accountability to the future encompasses special accountability to our students, for they are our most important purpose and legacy. And we are responsible not just to and for this university, Harvard, at this moment, 2007, but to the very concept of the university as it has evolved over nearly a millennium...
...fundamental assumptions. But it is our obligation to make that case: both to explain our purposes and to achieve them so well that these precious institutions survive and prosper in this new century. Harvard cannot do this alone. But all of us know that Harvard has a special role. That is why we are here; that is why it means so much...
...Russell (“Lair of the White Worm”) and Joe Dante (“Gremlins”). Oscar-winning Visual Effects Supervisor Robert Skotak (“Aliens” and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”) worked on the special effects. Hellman’s segment of “Trapped Ashes” screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2006. John Saxon, veteran of such classics as “Enter the Dragon” and “Nightmare on Elm Street” stars in the film...