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Surely the expense of placing at least one armed air marshal on each plane, reinforcing cockpit doors and instituting thorough and efficient screenings of passengers before they board is a small enough price to pay for air-travel safety. Americans should not have to fear and avoid flying! N. HARRY GARTZMAN Philadelphia...
...high credibility" in the talk of a biological, chemical or nuclear attack. And at least for now, the U.S. civil defense seems ready for the worst. In the past few days, sources tell TIME, military leaders have scrambled fighter jets at least a dozen times in a jittery--but thorough--effort to prevent another kamikaze attack...
...some ways this is a testament to the depth of the authors research. In each section, the authors survey the broad categories of governance, the faculty, the college and the professional schools, describing the key issues that pertain to each of these areas. This makes for a comprehensive and thorough account, but it also means that the continuing problems with the Sanskrit department are discussed three times. The problem, though, is that these issues have little to do with meritocracy or worldliness, and the Kellers have to stretch to maintain the focus on their argument...
...more closely at any one facet of the University (such as the difficulties of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department or the colossal failure of the Universitys Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP)). Despite the problems the Kellers have making everything fit within their argument, Making Harvard Modern uses thorough and solid research to tell a fascinating story...
...course, professors and students have limited time. Would I have been more satisfied with my freshman seminar rejections if the questionnaire was more thorough, if the interviews didn’t feel so cursory? No—in fact, I’d be angry that the whole useless process took so long. Seminars and conference courses demand limited enrollment, and people have to be turned down. And to be fair, the college has recently expanded the freshman seminar program. Worse than the school itself are the student organizations that imitate Harvard’s arrogant, supposedly merit-based approach...