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...comply with the international community's nuclear standards. India never signed the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and tested nuclear weapons in 1974 and 1998. Critics say other nations will now want their own exceptions to the rules. U.S. officials argue that this plan is an improvement on the status quo; currently only six of 23 Indian reactors are open to inspection...
Lawrence H. Summers’ resignation as University president leaves the status of the dean search at Harvard Business School (HBS) uncertain.Summers appointed Acting HBS Dean Jay O. Light last June after the abrupt departure of the school’s then-leader, Kim B. Clark ’74, who took a post as president of Brigham Young University-Idaho. Though Summers has been leading the search process, some HBS professors have expressed doubts about the course of the dean search following Summers’ resignation. In an interview with The Crimson yesterday, Summers said he will guarantee that...
...rather study 1,000 years of music in Music 1a, “Introduction to Music I?” This goes to the heart of our objections with the current system, which arbitrarily slaps the “Core” label on some courses while denying that status to similar offerings.The proper solution is not to re-label a handful of departmental courses as Core courses, as has been done in the past (for example Literature and Arts B-11, “The Art of Film,”was previously Visual and Environmental Studies 170a). Under...
...face discrimination and violence because of their orientation. Each year, several thousand Americans are victims of hate crimes because of their sexual orientation. It does not help that student leaders at our country’s best-known university refer to those who wish to change this unfortunate status quo as tools of the Antichrist. As Harvard students, we have a responsibility to attack bigotry when it rears its head in our community. We might think that we are showing respect to the Harvard community by pulling our punches when fellow students cross the line, but, in reality...
...those in favor of teaching pop culture, however, see the potential for falling into some dangerous traps.The aspect of “cool” that attaches itself to the study of mass culture can be worrisome to those who teach it. “There is a high status thing in enjoying lowbrow culture,” says Kaufman.Menand finds the status of taste significant as well. “To the extent that culture is a form of status seeking, you want to enhance your knowledge of the canon with something esoteric,” he says.It could...