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Langley added that he believes the universities were not the “victims that they pretended” to be in the financial crisis. “I hope it leads to real debate about who was responsible and how to protect loyal staffs, both union and non-union, who bore the brunt of this...
Wheeler somehow mimicked real documents convincingly enough to bypass these questions, or such checks were overlooked by admissions staffers...
Models, by design, are simplifications with clearly false assumptions. But the success of models lies in their ability to rationalize and often rightly predict the behavior of more complex real systems. Confused applications of the uncertainty principle notwithstanding, the author’s disdain for the “data-heavy, model-driven graduate student” is unjustified. Perhaps in his next piece, Mr. Barbieri can suggest an alternative to restrictive modeling in understanding and predicting phenomena...
...mind a 10-minute walk or shuttle ride to class. The same goes for commuter students at campuses like Bunker Hill and UMass-Boston. (Harvard has its own tradition of commuters, as described by the great alum Theodore H. White.) And when you’re commuting in the real world—riding the 1-9 from Washington Heights to Wall Street, say, or idling in five lanes of traffic in Los Angeles—a 10-minute commute would look ideal...
...academia,” said Dean of Students Ellen M. Cosgrove, who lauded Kagan for transforming the pace and productivity at the Law School. “She was someone who wants to get the job done quickly, on a time-frame that is more consistent with the real world and the corporate world...