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...discuss these issues demonstrates an unforgivable lack of forthrightness. Moreover, the proposal itself—even with the supposed obstacles—seems quite reasonable. In terms of cost, the investment of $35,000 per house, as estimated by the administration’s consultant, seems to us a trivial price to pay for the installation of a system along the lines of that proposed by Crimson Cable. As for liability issues, an internal e-mail message written by Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd in anticipation of a September interview with The Crimson, which appeared...
...people bound together more by our beliefs than by a common origin in some racial or ethnic “homeland.” As Tocqueville said of the earliest settlers, “they hoped for the triumph of an ideal.” It may seem trivial to some, but to call America a “homeland” is to forget what makes our nation truly exceptional. For our own government to reinforce this misconception does a disservice to our public discourse.(And let us not forget that America most certainly did not live...
...Most notably, genuine territorial disputes arose in 1986 after a Chinese researcher authored an article asserting that that Koguryo, an ancient kingdom long considered to be one of the first Korean states by both Korean and non-Korean historians alike, had actually been proto-Chinese in origin. While seemingly trivial, these territorial clashes cannot be taken lightly given the extreme sensitivity of both the Communist regimes in China and North Korea. The Early Korea Project represents a unique opportunity to clarify the historical facts on the ground–to highlight the cultural heritage of an understudied region and provide...
...others say that's not enough. A growing number of critics are crying foul over the tax-exempt status of London's wealthy expatriates. "As a foreigner in this country you can make an enormous amount of money, but the numbers who put anything back into this country are trivial," says economist Will Hutton, CEO of consultancy the Work Foundation. There are a handful of foreigners at the top of the Sunday Times Giving List, a record of charitable donations by the rich and powerful, but Hutton wants to see more. "I would like to see people endowing universities, backing...
...tepid discussion preceded the passage of Harvard’s latest undergraduate curriculum. It’s much more fun, after all, to nab a quote in the paper when one’s colleagues claw each other’s eyes out over something trivial. What fun it was when anthropologist J. Lorand Matory ’82 and law professor Alan M. Dershowitz quarreled over “free speech” (read: Israel) last Fall! When the Faculty toppled former university President Lawrence H. Summers, scores of professors who normally traffic in the obscure...