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...John Mugane, appointed by the Commitee as senior preceptor in African Languages, says that though Harvard is improving, broader trends remain troubling. Despite Harvard’s addition of new tutorials in six African languages, he said, a double standard persists in Western scholarship between those who study Europe and those who study Africa...
Lila K. Gollogly ’04, a student in the course, adds that it feels “just like an internship,” not like a standard course...
This comes at no small cost. Losick and Lue have jointly funded the course with two grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), which cover the $300,000 worth of equipment in three laboratories. Aside from the standard rows of pipettes, beakers and microscopes, the facility houses a gene gun, an RTS ProteoMaster and high-tech imaging systems...
...nationwide mandate of constitutional change the best way to go? Thirty-one years ago, in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court imposed a single standard on abortion across a nation still groping toward diverse solutions on that divisive issue. We all know how well that worked. Now the images of gay and lesbian couples, ecstatic about getting married, are beaming across the nation. "They're putting the human face" on the issue, says Bruce Nelson of Lawrenceville, Ga., the father of a gay son, 23, and a lesbian daughter, 26. "It's not lawsuits with a bunch of lawyers arguing...
...spread between operating and GAAP earnings really got out of whack from 2000 to 2002. Fortunately, the GAAP gap is narrowing. The spread was 13% for 2003, compared with an astonishing 75% in the fourth quarter of 2002, says Howard Silverblatt, market equity analyst at Standard & Poor's. That convergence bodes well for earnings quality, he says, although profits posted don't always tell the whole story...