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...McCain’s task of keeping Republican core voters and party leaders satisfied while attempting to appeal to more moderate or independent voters requires a difficult juggling act. He needs to be more aware of the potential consequences of any step taken in either direction. His remarks against Bush at Xavier would have been consistent with his platform if he had not dutifully accepted Bush’s support and praised him a month earlier. Perhaps some Republican voters would have been similarly offended if McCain had more openly deflected Bush’s support...
What seems like an easy choice, however, will not be so obvious. A coherent vision for Gen Ed, with its notion of engaged intellectualism and global citizenship, of which we saw glimpses in the preliminary report from the Task Force on General Education, has quickly ceded to a nebulous, uninspiring hodgepodge of academic disciplines that demonstrates little in the way of a singular, motivating, guiding philosophy. The consequences of this decline are profoundly troublesome, as a slow start to Gen Ed threatens to banish incoming classes of Harvard undergraduates to an incoherent education. To hasten the development...
...draw a colorful portrait of Baltimore, even adding dashes of dark humor that endow the desperate inner city with humanity. On a disturbance call, Moskos must ascertain whether the relationship of a man and a woman is sexual and therefore legally “domestic,” a task requiring sensitivity to Baltimore slang...
...Grosz is a leader in artificial intelligence research, combining her work in computer science with the fields of linguistics, psychology, economics, and philosophy. She has also been a vocal advocate for women in the sciences, chairing Harvard’s Task Force for Women in Science and Engineering...
...says. “It was really important to me because if I hadn’t gotten funding, I would not have been able to do it.” Ho, who has also given back to the arts community by serving as a member of the task force on the arts, is very positive about her involvement in the arts at Harvard. “I’m so thankful for all the people who have provided us with these amazing opportunities—Elizabeth Bergman [Artistic Director of the Dance Program...