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First, globalization makes a deeper and more nuanced knowledge of the religious currents of today??s world necessary, even urgent. Every student of economics or government sees how globalization has fundamentally altered our approach to international affairs, security, and development. Yet globalization has also transformed the scope and reach of religion. The energies of religious ideas and movements race through the circuits of today??s communication revolution. The possibilities of human understanding—and misunderstanding—are vastly amplified...
...level chemistry courses, but he was not immediately accepted because he had never studied calculus. “What I gained at Harvard was extraordinary grounding in the physical sciences,” said Kornberg, who eventually took both Chemistry 20—which is still offered at Harvard today??and the Chemistry 11/12 series. “Kornberg had an off-scale intellectual curiosity,” said Nobel Laureate and Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Elias J. Corey, who taught Kornberg during his sophomore year. “I remember first noticing the way his eyes would...
...agree with what the ethicist Peter Lawler has written, that our loss of Puritanism “has exacted a real erotic cost. A genuine 17th-century Puritan man who caught a glimpse of a young woman’s bare ankle might have had difficulty controlling himself. Today??s licentious young men watch virtually naked and perfectly sculpted young women gyrate on MTV and yawn.” Similarly, it makes little difference that one’s lithe legs are gloriously exposed to the thigh, or that one’s coiffure is the product...
...true that tutors were usually young graduates. But they differ from today??s residential tutors in these those tutors were thought qualified to teach a degree as soon as they had completed it. Age also didn’t matter when it came to a tutor’s moral duty, which was to guide students through not only appropriate intellectual but spiritual development...
...applaud Harvard’s decision to end its Early Action (EA) program. However, today??s editorial repeats the canard that “EA programs are often incorrectly understood to be binding contracts that lock students into attending their institution of choice, should they be accepted.” Really—if you’re not smart enough to understand that an Early Action program isn’t binding, you’re not going to stand much of a chance of being accepted by a university like Harvard, let alone succeed there...