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...other words, they can’t stay mad at me forever.When Will, one of my unemployed (amendment: he’s now employed as a Starbucks barista) ’06 roommates all but moved-in this fall, indefinitely, I knew I had to pursue this topic. He’s become a waddling juxtaposition—a Kong VIP and NFL prospect sharing a shower with Daedalus flies and Spee junkies.He didn’t even call to say he was coming. I had to call him. You can imagine, on Halloween, calmly enjoying a beverage upstairs...
Latinas Unidas President Marisol Pineda-Conde ’08 said that she came up with the topic after she heard a Latino male ask, “Why do Harvard girls have to be such feministas...
...Still, the Cairo conference represents a major step towards breaking the taboos that help HIV to spread unchecked. Regional UNDP director Amat al-Alim al-Soswa, addressing the event, expressed her satisfaction that the topic of AIDS is now discussed at Friday prayers and in Sunday sermons, because the clergy were an indispensable ally in the fight against the disease. By removing the shame of those living with HIV, she said, the religious leaders "went beyond a narrow and contemptuous attitude toward one embodying true magnanimity in knowledge, understanding and innovation...
...Task Force’s turn against methodology may reflect a dissatisfaction with the Core, which, as I am urging, vaunted methods over facts. The Core’s approach to methodology, however, teaches methods via intensive exploration of a single, sometimes narrow topic. The scientific method’s general applicability, however, can be best taught by applying it in a wide range of settings. The Task Force’s emphasis on broader courses that teach a wide range of facts is a step in the right direction, especially if those facts serve to teach the scientific method...
...Second, students should take a class on evidence and statistical inference. This could either be pure statistics or empirical tools taught through the lens of a particular topic. Decent citizenship of the world is incompatible with statistical ignorance. A Harvard education must train people to separate compelling evidence from froth. Statisticians do have a comparative advantage in this, but I can readily imagine great core courses taught by Florence Professor of Government Gary King or Ford Professor of the Social Sciences Robert J. Sampson teaching students empirical methods with a focus on politics or sociology. The analytical reasoning component...