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...certainly relevant to forming solid, coherent arguments. And it is simply naive to think that a Math concentrator needs to sit through “Statistics for Life” in order to understand “analytical reasoning.” While we ultimately agree with the philosophical thrust of the report—that general education should provide students with knowledge that will help them understand the modern world—we don’t think every course needs to bend over backwards to connect all the dots for students. Harvard students are bright enough...
...reality, trying to find connections between the two sides in every instance runs the risk of fostering confusion rather than enlightenment, as is often the case when extraneous side-notes are thrust too eagerly toward the center of discussion...
...enter North Korea from China. Hopefully, the immediacy of this most recent crisis will make China’s surreptitious support for the North Korea—and other nuclear hopefuls, such as Iran—increasingly untenable. China’s relationship with North Korea has now been thrust into the spotlight, potentially laying the groundwork for more meaningful resolutions than have been achieved in the past. Largely isolated from the rest of the international community, North Korea depends on China’s extensive economic cooperation for any semblance of stability. China has a strong incentive...
...very consciousness it tries to create. It ostensibly wishes to grant women privacy, yet publicly broadcasts the names, faces, and personal stories of women who have had abortions. The legal defense of abortion rests on a strong veil between the public and private. Yet Ms. Magazine relishes in thrusting these women into the spotlight. Moderate pro-choicers everywhere should be embarrassed. Ms. Magazine celebrates abortion as a liberating act of feminism, a truly revolutionary tenor to strike even amidst the cacophonous abortion debates. Most Americans—pro-life and pro-choice—don’t like abortion...
...difficult as it is for Noah to be a friend and teacher at the same time, Noah also feels as if he has been thrust into a parental position. To make up for Dr. Thayer’s disregard for her daughter, Noah tries to expose Tuscany to a larger world than the hot clubs and hot 30-year-old men in New York City. Eventually, like the hired tutors of the Jane Austen era, Noah becomes Tuscany’s full time teacher...