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...most emailed stories on the Web last week reported that junior-high boy students do better when taught by a man, and girl students do better when taught by a woman. Here was a magic-bullet explanation for The Boy Crisis from Stanford's Hoover Institute: the boys are lacking because 4 out of 5 teachers are women...
...Niall Ferguson may have retired as the Laurence A. Tisch professor of history at Harvard University and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford. His latest book, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, has just been published by Penguin Press...
...accurately described what prospective college students should look for when applying to a school. I am a college student who does not attend an Ivy League institution, and I am surrounded by people who devoted their high school years to trying to get into Harvard, Yale and Stanford. Does an Ivy League degree necessarily equate with success? Education is priceless no matter which college you are able to attend. ALEFIYAH YUSUF SHIKARI Darien...
Your report was well intended, but by making the Ivy League schools your focus, you perpetuated the idea of these schools as the nation's élite, most desirable campuses. Harvard, Yale and M.I.T. have their counterparts on the left coast in the University of California, Berkeley; Stanford; and Caltech. These campuses are certainly not inferior to the Ivy League campuses, and one of them is a public institution. D. BLAIR GIBSON UCLA, B.A. '78, PH.D. '90 EL CAMINO COLLEGE Torrance, Calif...
...Predictions: You will regret not going to Stanford. You will build a tumescent human organ out of snow. Playboy will write about it. You will learn that, as a Harvard student, your slightest action could be scrutinized by the national media...