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...University’s schools. The survey, which will be up until Oct. 20, asks broad questions about what students like and dislike about their educational experiences at Harvard. Later questions solicit input about what challenges and strengths the University president should “build upon,” and the final question asks students to name a maximum of three characteristics the new president should have. And as added incentive, all participants have a shot at winning iPods or digital cameras in a lottery. Matthew J. Murray, a first-year student at the Law School and the chair...
...passing. The glib assumption one first makes of Peter Moss's No Babylon-coming as it does from British Hong Kong's former propaganda chief-is that it will be the kind of memoir any undergraduate seminar could destroy in minutes, excoriating an Orientalist cliché here, seizing upon a political or gender bias there. In fact, the book is nothing of the kind. Moss has an acute sense of separateness from the colonial hierarchy of which he was officially a part, stemming, one soon reads, from his Anglo-Indian ethnicity and his sexual orientation...
...despite the well-deserved critical accolades heaped upon him, not many people of Bujalski’s generation are familiar with his name or work...
...there is one thing that people on both sides of the cloning debate agree upon, it's that cloning is an incredibly inefficient process. When it comes to cloning animals, like Dolly and Snuppy, the process produces a healthy animal only a dismal 1% to 5% of the time. This hit-or-miss dilemma wouldn't matter much if producing identical animals were its only application, but cloning is also the foundation for one of the more promising ways that stem cells might be used to treat human disease with a patient's own cells. At this rate, even cloning...
...young are the ones most easily inebriated. Europeans entering university this autumn have no personal memory of the joyous destruction of the Berlin Wall in 1989, let alone the preceding 40-year struggle against the Soviet system during which the survival of a free Europe depended upon an alliance with the U.S. - something their parents felt in their bones even if they disliked particular U.S. policies. The youngsters' professors might teach that the American nuclear umbrella provided the strategic framework enabling France and Germany to stop trying to annihilate each other and the European Union to take root and prosper...