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Twenty-four hours, door-to-door. That's been a frequent commute during the past five years for Professor of Astronomy Robert P. Kirshner '70 as he attempts to obtain a world-class research telescope in Chile for Harvard...
...have the highest respect for the extracurriculars here at Harvard and acknowledge that participation by students in them is an essential part of their educations. Yet to resist curricular reforms because of the impact on extracurriculars is to have the tail wag the dog. Harvard's world-class reputation is not built on its extracurricular activities, however wonderful some of them may be. Nor, I suspect, do most students come here because of them. In considering curricular reform we must leave students time for a life, but we must also demand that they be students first and athletes, musicians, debaters...
...spent money. No question about that...She is a world-class spender. She is a world-class shopper." --Gerry Spence, successfully defending his client Imelda Marcos in her 1990 trial on racketeering and fraud charges...
Maybe such a crisis is in order. It isn't just that as these machines get more powerful they do more jobs once done only by people, from financial analysis to secretarial work to world-class chess playing. It's that, in the process, they seem to underscore the generally dispiriting drift of scientific inquiry. First Copernicus said we're not the center of the universe. Then Darwin said we're just protozoans with a long list of add-ons--mere "survival machines," as modern Darwinians put it. And machines don't have souls, right? Certainly Deep Blue hasn...
...parents used to call a learning experience. The first thing I learned was how little I knew about Internet mailing lists. They don't get as much press as the more glamorous World Wide Web, but these lists are every bit as active and in some ways much more satisfying. Subscribing to a good mailing list is like entering into heartfelt correspondence with world-class letter writers. Every day brings a fresh crop of E-mail from people who share your particular obsessions, be they garden herbs or firearms or the novels of Anne Rice. And if you ever tire...