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...oftentimes not even recognized. Ask yourself: How many Harvard students can explain the difference between a Shiite and a Sunni? How many understand why most Americans reject Darwinian evolution? Probably—and sadly—not many. But this sort of knowledge is essential to understand today??s world. Religion is not, as Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker wrote, an “American anachronism.” If anything, it is Harvard that needs explaining in our persistently religious global society...
...editors: Not only does today??s Crimson op-ed “The Mirage of the Maverick” (Dec. 11) mischaracterize the record of Senator John McCain, but the facts supplied to substantiate these misleading assertions are flat out wrong. The op-ed falsely states that Senator McCain voted against funding embryonic stem cell research. However, HR 810, the bill McCain voted for, funds embryonic stem cell research; the author misidentifies this bill as an adult stem cell bill. In fact, it was S2754 that funds adult stem cell research, and Senator McCain voted for this bill...
Having been on both sides of the podium—Harvard undergrad and TF—I would go one step farther than today??s editorial (“Will A Professor Please Stand Up?”). Both faculty and students should be accountable for their CUE evaluations. For evaluations to be meaningful, all students—not just those with the strongest positive and negative feelings—must complete them with the knowledge that their comments could appear in their instructor’s teaching portfolio to be read by hundreds of faculty search committee...
...narcissism of today??s youth and the moral vacuity of the liberal intelligentsia are common enough themes among disgruntled moralists and curmudgeonly conservatives, but rarely are they afforded the delightful aesthetic treatment of a deft novelist, combining penetrating satire with deep pathos and rich characterization...
...letter sent to the Faculty and discussed at today??s meeting, the eight-member task force wrote: “We have removed ‘reason and faith’ as a distinct category, feeling that courses dealing with religion—both those examining normative reasoning in a religious context and those engaging in a descriptive examination of the roles that religion plays today and has historically played—can be readily accommodated in other categories...