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...only excerpt that will be published from the book before its May 15 release, Lewis said in an interview yesterday. According to Lewis’ article, Harvard no longer teaches students many of the fundamentals of a “liberal education”—and today??s Harvard education lacks a “common thread” that guided it in centuries past. Lewis, who is the McKay professor of computer science and a Harvard College professor, noted that Harvard is not the only university moving away from the ideal of a liberal education...
...Wofsy put it, Boston is particularly likely to experience a “January thaw” as well as a “January freeze.” And March, likewise, can either go out like a lion or a lamb. According to Weather.com, temperatures in Boston on today??s date, March 22, have ranged from a low of 11 degrees—registered in 1934—to a high of 72 degrees in 1948. So what sort of weather do Harvard experts predict for the coming weeks? “Chaotic,” said...
After the Regents’ meeting in Los Angeles Thursday, student board member Adam Rosenthal said in a statement, “Today??s vote puts the university on the right side of history, in the position to exercise powerful and practical action to help end the murder, torture, and genocide in Darfur...
...hunger strike to protest his incarceration. In deteriorating health, he released a defiant statement: “No one should be imprisoned—not even for a second—for expressing an opinion.”Journalists are not the only ones who suffer under today??s Iranian government. Women, homosexuals, and minorities also face a bleak existence. According to Human Rights Watch, four Iranians were publicly hung last year for engaging in homosexual acts. Females no longer have their lips sliced off for wearing lipstick, but they are barred from holding positions of significant power...
...changed in the last 144 years, a large part of St. Louis’s charter can still be traced to the political situation at the outbreak of the Civil War, when its large population of anti-slavery German immigrants—the mid-19th century equivalent of today??s “dangerous radicals”—made St. Louis a significant threat to the newly seceded Confederacy.For those of you who haven’t been reading the news, the Civil War ended a few years ago. But the question of who controls...