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...mandatory and it is difficult to see how they ever could be. It may be possible to compel a student to fill out a questionnaire, but it is extremely difficult to insure that he or she does so intelligently, thoughtfully and fairly. One need only drop the veil of the abstract and look at the real results of the present CUE system to see this. I taught 40 students last semester in two sections of Lit and Arts A-66 and received 20 CUE evaluations. Of those 20, two were blank on the rating side and 12 were blank...
...presented a potentially "shocking" idea to Ali; the entire Harvard community should listen. Minority students "are being hurt more by the inept good will of whites than by lingering racism." That is the lesson I am learning every day at Harvard as racial tensions continue to increase behind a veil of silence. We cannot tacitly accept this misguided crusade for justice. The consequences of affirmative action should not be ignored or silenced--especially by its recipients themselves...
...political persecution? Yes, say opposition M.P.s and feminist groups demanding that Canada grant refugee status to victims of sex-based persecution. The debate ensnared Immigration Minister Bernard Valcourt, who reversed a decision denying asylum to a Saudi woman who said she feared punishment for refusing to wear a veil if she returned home. Valcourt now promises new guidelines to encompass women whose governments fail to protect them from domestic violence or persecution. Women's rights advocates insist that Canada go further and become the first country to enshrine in law refuge for abused women...
This is a part that should bring the highest returns of all. The managers operate behind a veil of secrecy under the fallacious pretext of losing competitive financial advantage. This argument is nothing less than an insult to all Harvard's alumni intelligence inasmuch that they never had any such advantage in the first place and if they had, they had lost it many point ago by their own hand to the point that they already became the laughing stock of Wall Street...
...going to take the veil, I snorted. My conviction that a successful law school career requires and examination of the theological origins an underpinnings of the law for a more comprehensive understanding and application has been growing. On a more pragmatic level, fashioning a hybrid of theology and law also seemed to be a canny professional move. I had cut loose any religious moorings during adolescence, succumbing only occasionally to bouts of Proustian introspections and Zen austerity. I had neither subscribed to the common Harvard utopian fantasies which too often involve communal dining on trestle tables in drafty halls...