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...system of justice, plus prohibitions against idolatry, blasphemy, theft, murder, sexual sins and cruelty to animals. According to Falk, the authoritative compendium of Jewish oral law and commentary, the Talmud, says that Moses called upon Israelites to spread knowledge of the Noahide commandments to all people. The Jews never undertook such a mission, says Falk, but Jesus and Paul the Apostle did, motivated "by love of God and fellow...
Thirty years ago, when Harvard last undertook such a review, the Core was born, and the previous review, in the wake of the Second World War, produced the foundational document on the idea of general education...
Last fall—while their classmates studied the breakability of certain brands of chalk—three intrepid students in Statistics 140: Experimental Design undertook research that was a bit more captivating. Cassandra K. Wolos ’06, Alexander S. Captain ’06, and Ruthie B, Birger ’06 decided to investigate the question most central to the integrity of the student press: whether or not the Crimson is visually representative of the student body. They randomly selected students pictured in the daily and FM, then pulled the most flattering shots of them...
...next undertook a re-evaluation of a specific case concerning a young scholar at a competing institution; in the previous instance, we had declined to make her an offer. In the light of the specific process that Larry proposed, we came to a very different conclusion than we had previously. A unanimous vote supported our offering her a tenured appointment in our department, and we aggressively and enthusiastically pursued her recruitment to Harvard...
...That is not to pretend that the U.S. undertook Iraq for reasons of pure humanitarianism-as America undertook the rescue of other Muslim peoples (with varying success) in Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo. We would never have invaded Iraq to depose Saddam without 9/11. After 9/11, we finally understood that helping build decent, representative, tolerant societies in the Middle East is ultimately the only way to prevent endless generations of young Arab men from finding fulfillment by crashing airplanes into buildings filled with infidels. Europe has a similar interest, having suffered, with the train bombings in Madrid, the kind of fanatic...