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...about grants being renewed at only 80 percent of current levels. This could be a big problem that we are looking at now.”‘STRONG FOUNDATIONS’While these challenges do lie ahead for the current fiscal year, University officials took an optimistic tone in discussing the results of fiscal 2005. In their letter introducing the report, Berman and Rothenberg called 2005 “a financially successful year” for Harvard.And in his letter, Summers called fiscal 2005 “a strong year financially.” He cited Harvard?...
Shelby, who taught the popular sophomore course Social Studies 10 last year, knows how to talk philosophy without putting his audience to sleep. Shelby’s writing style, although very methodical in its presentation and analysis of previous calls for African-American unity, has a compelling, discursive tone that compels readers to eagerly follow his argument over the course of 256 pages...
...Americans know, that chilly, ordinary workday of an extraordinary seamstress in Montgomery, Ala., ultimately helped ignite the civil rights movement. Giovanni, a poet and black activist, keeps her evident moral outrage in check as she tells the tale of Parks' bus ride into history, maintaining the same firm, level tone that Parks did when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus to a white man. Parks, Giovanni writes, was tired. "She was tired of 'Colored' entrances, 'Colored' balconies, 'Colored' drinking fountains and 'Colored' taxis. She was tired of getting somewhere first and being waited on last...
...candidates for Undergraduate Council (UC) President and Vice-President presented their campaign platforms for the first time and set an amicable tone at the second annual UC Presidential Debate on Health Issues last night. About 50 students attended the debate, which was held in Loker Commons and meant to be a forum for the candidates to specifically address community health and wellness issues. The Community Health Initiative (CHI) began sponsoring the Health Issues debate last year because they felt that there were important issues not being addressed in the main candidate debate, which will be held today in the Science...
...prestigious institutions, supporters of the theory are by no means uneducated. The leaders of the intelligent design camp hold Ph.D.’s in biochemistry, philosophy, and mathematics and can be found on college and university faculties. As a result, their rhetoric has taken on an academic tone that previous arguments for God’s role in creation lacked.The intelligent design debate most recently came to a head when the Kansas Education Board voted earlier this month to teach theories that challenge evolution in that state’s high schools.And the theory’s champions continue...