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...faculty with the necessary interest and breadth to teach such wide-sweeping curricula.That’s not to say such faculty don’t exist. Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel’s Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice,” is the textbook example. But in many cases, students end up with team teaching—for example, Biological Sciences 56, which boasts four professors on top of a full staff of teaching fellows. Such courses lack continuity and are only as good as the weakest link.The solution is simple: full-time teachers...
...Putting both defendants on the stand risks exacerbating the problem their attorneys have had to deal with from the beginning. The testimony of the two executives will probably not be consistent, says, Houston attorney Joel Androphy, author of a four-volume textbook, White Collar Crime. Although Skilling and Lay probably won't turn against each other-they haven't so far-they may well contradict one another. "Both defense attorneys came in and cross-examined with one hand tied behind their back," Androphy says. The problem was most obvious during the testimony of former CFO Andrew Fastow, when...
...textbook American soldier is tall, clean-cut, and bright-eyed. The textbook Harvard student is perhaps slightly shorter, slightly scruffier, and slightly bleary-eyed.But, on occasion, these categories overlap. A handful of current Harvardians are also soldiers; they traded books for boots and set out for the military either before or after their time at Harvard. And they’ve gotten a bit more life (and gun) experience than most of their peers.SOLDIER SNAPSHOT“I was tired of being at school,” says Ryan A. Delany...
Harvard’s only tenured Sanskrit professor, Michael E. J. Witzel, received e-mails labelling him a “bastard” and calling for his death after he entered a debate over the portrayal of Hinduism in California textbooks earlier this year.In November, Witzel, the Wales professor of Sanskrit, was notified about edits submitted by the Vedic Foundation (VF) and the Hindu Education Foundation (HEF) for the California State Board of Education’s review of sixth grade social studies textbooks. The organizations said that the books should be revised to ensure that their depictions...
Just months after he became dean of Harvard College, Benedict H. Gross ’71 published an innovative mathematics textbook entitled “The Magic of Numbers...