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Harvard Business School (HBS) Dean Kim B. Clark pledged yesterday to reject applicants who used a hacker’s tip to check their admissions status online nearly a month early...
...before? They never suggested that we challenge these wobbly despots? In fact, they bitterly denounced the Bush doctrine for presuming to destabilize the region in pursuit of some democratic chimera? They opposed the Bush doctrine precisely because they preferred stability. They warned us darkly that the alternative to the status quo was the seething Arab street--an unruly mob, anarchic, anti-American, pan-Arabist or perhaps Islamist, ignorant of all liberal traditions and ready to rise up against America should it disturb the perfect order of things by "imposing democracy...
...Nelson Mandela once said "true reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past." On the contrary, reconciliation requires an exhumation of the past, an examination of the evidence, a making of amends, and then a slow processing of injustices until they gain the status of less toxic history. And of all the great nations of the world, there is none with so large a reserve of undigested, poisoned history than China. Think of the killing of 1 million landlords, the Hundred Flowers Movement, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Think of Tiananmen, and the repeated ideological cashiering...
...should also point out that Professor Barbara Grosz has been a leader on issues related to women in science for many years, through such efforts as chairing the FAS Standing Committee on the Status of Women in the early 1990s when it produced an important report on the experience of female junior faculty and graduate students in the sciences at Harvard and working on an initiative in the late 1990s chaired by Professors Friend and John Dowling, and including Professors Howard Georgi and Dudley Herschbach, to help facilitate the identification, recruitment, and retention of women science faculty...
TIME: To get a final-status agreement, do you think you will have to make unpopular decisions, unpopular compromises...