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...They now want to build a brand new building right in the middle of our neighborhood...and they don’t even have the common courtesy to tell us in person,” Mattison said...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Packing Up the Museums | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...Mathematics 154: “Probability Theory” will count toward Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning. “Obviously that’s a course most students are never going to take,” Harris said. “But if we’re going to tell math students, ‘You have to do EMR [Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning], it’s important that we provide a really advanced course.” Since all students will be taking classes in eight generic subject areas—as opposed to courses in the seven...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Six Courses Join Gen Ed Menu | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...Under affirmative action Harvard has gathered a respected group of Black faculty, an undoubted accomplishment. But, as far as I can tell, they do not include a single conservative and are no exception to the lack of diversity. They are treated well, and make their home in the first-class lounge at Harvard, now a privileged minority. Nobody begrudges them their status, but students could learn more about the Black experience from a course on Black thought, if one existed, reading great authors like Douglass, Washington, and Dubois, and taught by a professor of any color. Students would discover more...

Author: By Harvey C. Mansfield | Title: The Cost of Affirmative Action | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

According to Trinity members familiar with the situation, after the May 27 meeting, Moss was ordered to tell the first person he hired - his head of communications - that she could no longer serve in the paid pastoral staff position. At least one other Trinity staffer has also been relieved of her duties in recent days. One source familiar with the situation said of Wright and the dismissals, "He doesn't have to run it by the board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unretirement of Reverend Wright | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...common thread running through these proposals is work. In America, it's supposed to be enough. Most of the people I've met don?t need an economist to tell them that hard work isn't paying these days. You see it in their faces: the pride that comes from work and that panic about what tomorrow might bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Do We Turn Away? | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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