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Though professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences represent just one of Harvard’s 10 schools, their support—or, at the very least, their lack of vocal opposition—is essential to Summers’ viability in the University’s top administrative post. All Harvard presidents face inevitable criticism from their adversaries, but the deep-seated opposition apparent at yesterday’s meeting seemed to pose an immediate affront to Summers’ job security...
...only hope that future meetings between Sharon and Abbas are as productive as was their first one. Both leaders ignored the risk of appearing weak by coming back to the bargaining table, and both had to cope with vocal minorities in their respective countries which wholly reject the idea of concessions. Both leaders acted admirably and boldly; the new agreement, and the greater cooperation and trust it signals, truly is a major step forward in the peace process...
These sorts of cheap-tricks are not limited to one side of the political spectrum. While Democrats have been more vocal as of late labeling various administration initiatives as “wedges,” Republican cries of “class warfare” can sound eerily similar and employ all of the same unfortunate tactics. Neither party has a monopoly on intellectual weakness and fallacy, as any observer of politics can all too easily gauge...
...have an MRI on Friday to find out if it’s a stress fracture,” Maludzinski said. “’Till then, I’m just crossing my fingers and exercising my vocal chords...
...whole system; I don't have time and energy to get rid of systemic injustice, racism, poverty and violence; I have to get what's right for my kid,'" says Syracuse's Sapon-Shevin. "But then the schools do educational triage. They basically attend to the most vocal, powerful people with more resources. They say, 'Don't get angry. We'll take care of this issue.' And they mean, 'We'll take care of it for your child. We'll get your kid out of the class with the bad teacher and leave the other kids in there...