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...nature of modern news. “We have the bones now and the infrastructure to report about and edit the news continuously,” he said. A student at the Kennedy School who attended the event, Anjeanette T. Damon, said the future of journalism is an important topic. “We need to be smart about how [journalism] evolves so that we keep its important values while not becoming obsolete,” she said. “It’s a very rarefied discussion, but hopefully it broadens...
...suicidal defense of the island by an imperial state. Its leading figures are two soldiers who question such fanaticism. The two films constitute a meditation on the nature of heroism, and the director sat down with TIME's Richard Schickel (a longtime friend) to reflect further on the topic...
Creating a solitary requirement to mandate the study of such a personal and sensitive topic is counterproductive despite the Task Force’s best intentions of trying to encourage students “to become more self-conscious about their own beliefs and values” and “to become more informed and reflective citizens.” It will only generate controversy about whether it should be studied, taking away from its educational value and turning a well-intentioned requirement into a hoop for students to jump through...
Furthermore, the very interdisciplinary nature and ubiquity of religion suggests that one need not even take classes that explicitly address the topic in their course titles to acquire perspective about its applicable significance. It is hard to imagine how one could take a class on American government and fail to struggle with religiously-charged political issues such as stem cell research and school prayer or how one could take a class on European history without grappling with clashes of religion in the Crusades or the Reformation. The case could be made that undergrads need to experience a more catholic variety...
...Summers said that he was not sufficiently knowledgeable about the case to express an opinion, he lost the support of several senior FAS professors and members of the Corporation, The Crimson has reported.The Shleifer case is not on the Faculty’s agenda for next Tuesday, but the topic could be raised during the meeting’s free-for-all “question period.”Abernathy said that he has no plans to resuscitate the case at next week’s meeting, but he hopes that in light of Knowles’ statement, some...