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...heart is with Obama, but my brain is with Hillary," said Lourdes Diaz of Miami. "I want to be able to vote for him, but I just don't know yet." Which pretty much sums up the state of the Democratic presidential race in midsummer. It is weirdly static. In most presidential campaigns I've covered, someone has made a dramatic move one way or another by now--Howard Dean's upward whoosh in 2004, for example. "Yeah, and then I had that downward whoosh," Dean told me recently, laughing. "This race isn't moving because it's still...
...Nevertheless, despite such lingering, misguided policies—and problems still unaddressed, like global warming—we’ve made more progress in the last century than in the previous two million years. Until the 1700s, mortality rates were static, population growth was slow, and unmitigated poverty was the norm, but since then, we’ve enjoyed a spectacular improvement in humanity’s general well-being. Worldwide life expectancy has spiked from 31 to over 67 since 1990, while global average annual income has tripled since 1950, and the number of people living in extreme...
...Nall, a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, leans in toward the speaker and listens for hints of words among the crackling static. He adjusts the 20-foot antennae atop the clubhouse of W1AF, home of the Harvard Wireless Club...
...treat the homeless more like humans, but perhaps we should go one step further and remember that there is nothing that truly separates them from us as people except perhaps a few years of unfortunate twists of fate. In emphatically writing about a homeless population that is a static and unchanging “they,” he seems to be defining the homeless as an “other,” inherently different kind of population. “Abject poverty” and “the greatest academic institution in the world?...
...fostered the kind of academic freedom Professor Riesman and others had hoped for at Harvard. Brown allows students to have courses letter-graded or non-letter graded, with a Satisfactory/No Credit option. Through this open curriculum, Brown aims to prioritize “intellectual growth rather than the static transmission of knowledge”—essentially, a broad and curious academic perspective. Admittedly, Brown’s intellectual ethos is historically very different from Harvard’s, but we could nonetheless learn from its exploration-focused, open curriculum...