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...after classes started last fall, the New York Times published an article that made waves on campus. Headlined “Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood,” the story purported to explore a growing trend among female students at Harvard, Yale, and “other top colleges” to forgo ambitious career plans—or any career at all—in favor of raising children and running a family. The article noted that “young women today” are increasingly seeing their role as mothers...
...Barely a third of the “DotNet” generation (current 15- to 25-year olds) follows the news on a regular basis. As these are the formative years for media habits, the numbers bode poorly for future engagement with current issues. But how to reverse the trend? I was amazed this spring when one of my professors mandated a daily reading of The New York Times: it was the first time in four years at Harvard my coursework required attention to current events. This is not to suggest that the University could single-handedly defeat civic indifference...
...trend is the same in Cambodia, China, parts of Africa and many island nations in the Pacific. What alarms public-health experts most is the speed with which diabetes has reached epidemic levels in these regions-and the fact that it is affecting children as well as adults. In 2000, 151 million people around the world had diabetes; by 2025, that number could double. Over the past two decades, the prevalence of the disease in China has jumped from 0.5% to 5%, while in cities in India, it has gone from 8% of adults in 1989 to an estimated...
...We’ve always waited to be down by 10 or 15 before we decide to come back and do something. We’re used to it, but it’s not good.”The season opener provided an augur for a trend that would mark the whole season: against then-No. 18 DePaul on Nov. 18, Harvard found itself in an insurmountable 47-18 deficit at the half. At Virginia a few weeks later, the Crimson faced a 31-22 halftime hole in Charlottesville, and not even the momentum of a sustained second half...
...former Harvard lecturer Martin Peretz, the editor-in-chief of The New Republic and a prominent supporter of Israel, defended Summers, saying that he “is absolutely right,” and that “he was one of the first people to recognize this trend in the American academy.” “In a way, it is good that these academics have expressed themselves in this way because it will make people understand how intellectual honesty is easily vanquished by propaganda,” Peretz said. Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz...