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...helpful: posting the syllabi of spring semester courses online during reading period. Students can shop only so many courses during shopping period, and the rapid pace and short duration of this week are not ideal for thoughtful consideration of academic options. By posting syllabi earlier, professors can help students avoid having to piece together shopping lists the night before classes begin from vague and unhelpful “Courses of Instruction” summaries and CUE ratings. Even tentative syllabi that are subject to change are far more helpful than nothing at all. Given the chance, many students would begin...
...breathe the word draft for one simple reason: the war in Iraq is so unpopular, no one would go. People would vote with their feet, and that would make Bush and other lawmakers face up to the disaster that this has become. As it is, they can afford to avoid the hard choices and continue to fight a misbegotten war with other people's children. Jim Calio Marina del Rey, California...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don’t want to have to go out on a limb when they don’t know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...result of Harvard’s investments in two index funds managed by the British investment bank Barclay’s. If Harvard wishes to live up to its promise of divestment, it should sever even indirect ties to corrupt firms like Sinopec and PetroChina and remain vigilant to avoid future investments in these companies...
...sure, in today’s interconnected, global marketplace, it would be virtually impossible to avoid all contacts with major firms like the two in question. By playing “six degrees of PetroChina,” one could no doubt find Harvard-backed companies that invested in companies that invested in companies that invested in PetroChina. But in this particular case, there is little ambiguity; investments in the Chinese firms comprised a sizable 12.6 percent of one of the Harvard-owned funds. This, in our view, does not represent a good faith attempt to keep Harvard?...