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...several years to the task of expelling President Summers. The most crucial reform would require ensuring greater intellectual diversity among those who teach the students. The dearth of conservative views (most of which were liberal views when I was an undergraduate) affects the nature of what is being taught, as well as the intellectual mettle of those doing the teaching. Students, irrespective of their own views, are being short-changed by a faculty that does not even acknowledge, much less wish to tackle, diverse opinions. RUTH R. WISSE Cambridge, Mass. March 12, 2006 The writer is Peretz Professor of Yiddish...
...through a NATO exchange. Discipline, especially on her father’s side, was an important part of Bras’ upbringing. If something went wrong with the car when her family was on a road trip, her father would recite aloud the steps he had been taught for dealing with an airborne crisis. “Assess situation,” he would say. “Alert commanding officer.” And during her high school tennis matches, he would shout traditional military encouragements to her in Dutch. “Pain is good! Bleed more...
...it’s designed to be a relaxed way for students to learn more about Islam,” he wrote in an e-mail. Nguyen said that the seminars were not meant to replace a course, although he added that, coincidentally, there are few college courses being taught about Islam this semester. Harvard is offering one seminar for undergraduates this semester on the representations of Muhammad through history in the Study of Religion program—though a previous course on Islam is a prerequisite. It is also offering one undergraduate course on “Contemporary Political...
...could adjust.“It’s nothing particularly difficult or complicated,” he said. Chair of the History Department Andrew Gordon said some members of his department have already discussed how they might respond to the proposal. One option is to add more faculty-taught seminars.After an initial planning meeting, “we were all very enthusiastic,” he said. Many professors said they expect that the concentration choice delay proposal will be passed in some form this spring, along with an EPC proposal to create secondary fields, which would function like...
...back of his purple Chevrolet Caprice and played the 1998 HBO documentary "Pimps Up, Ho's Down," according to prosecutor Sharon Marcus-Kurn, who got Brice convicted in federal court earlier this month for sex trafficking of a minor and other related charges. The film, testified the girl, taught her the terms of her new relationship with her pimp: she would have sex with men ("tricks") at a specific block ("the track") and hand over all the money she made ("break bread"), and the pimp would pay her rent, buy her clothes and bail her out of jail...