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Unlike Drake and the rest of the College administration, we should not let pride blind us to the train wreck that will likely occur on Saturday. We should at least admit that the College and the BPD have done a positively embarrassing job by neutering one of the great traditions in American collegiate sports...
...famished, but she can't eat the food Arlen took from her home, and which she presumably prepared for the man she killed. He has lived on the road (the movie anticipated many more in the '30s about the homeless), but she is unsuited to the train-hopping and the rough camaraderie of bindlestiffs, especially when they discover she's a woman. She doesn't want more of what she got at home...
Today, the Faculty will begin to take on the central and difficult question of what students should know to graduate from Harvard. The Task Force on General Education has produced a serious and thoughtful answer to this question. It has proposed that the College train students for citizenship in a global society and, to that end, require students to take courses in ten diverse areas from reason and faith to analytical reasoning. I fear, however, that the proposal goes too far in rejecting the Core Curriculum’s “approaches to knowledge” in favor...
...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...
...Vietnam's biggest adjustment in joining the global economy will be changing its ingrained culture of corruption, secrecy and state intervention. The government recently enacted extensive new laws covering enterprise, investment and securities, which would boost protection for private businesses and increase transparency. Still, it will take time to train thousands of bureaucrats to apply rules fairly. The country ranks in the bottom third of Transparency International's corruption index; a recent government inspection of state ministries uncovered 1,700 graft cases in the first nine months of this year. Some investors grumble the government is still apt to make...