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...letter, sent to the council on Nov. 10 by Welch Professor of Computer Science Stuart M. Shieber ’81, raises specific questions about the wisdom of splitting science facilities between two sides of the river as well as the rationale for leaving the Law School in Cambridge, according to professors who have seen...
...first. Lieberman, Edwards and Clark are making their play for independents, who can vote in either party's primary, in hopes of claiming at least a victory over expectations. "In New Hampshire, it's not about what you finish, it's about what you finish compared to conventional wisdom," says Lieberman pollster Mark Penn. "The national constituency and the constituency in the Feb. 3 states would light up considerably if they saw [Lieberman] finish third in New Hampshire...
...view, "War is ultimately about doing, not thinking." Despite periodic triumphs of espionage and applied intellect--those of Bletchley Park's decrypters against the German Enigma codes of World War II, for example--the value of intelligence in war, Keegan thinks, may be limited or illusory. "Knowledge, the conventional wisdom has it, is power; but knowledge cannot destroy or deflect or damage or even defy an offensive initiative by an enemy unless the possession of knowledge is also allied to objective force," Keegan writes...
Whereas I had to glean wisdom from only Teen, Seventeen and YM magazines in an effort to haphazardly shape my adolescent identity, tweens can now read Teen People, Teen Vogue, Cosmo Girl and Elle Girl—publications which together form a more comprehensive account of the lives of those with birth years between 1988 and 1990. Whereas those of us who are now college-aged might have helped form a cult-like following of Claire Danes’ angst-ridden character in My So-Called Life, today’s tweens have icons who are universally recognized as celebrities...
This coming May, a very special group of seventh-graders from Texas will be visiting Harvard. Conventional wisdom has deemed that students like them—underprivileged African-American and Hispanic children from the inner city—cannot succeed in public schools. Forgive them if they find such generalizations to be offensive and wholly untrue. Indeed, our educational establishment would do well to note the accomplishments of schools such as their academy in Houston, a founding member of the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP...