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...never confessed to inaccuracy, spoke of pursuing a truth that transcended mere facts. "There are so many complaints," he once said. "Kapuscinski never mentions dates, Kapuscinski never gives us the name of the minister, he has forgotten the order of events. All that, of course, is exactly what I avoid. If those are the questions you want answered, you can visit your local library, where you will find everything you need: the newspapers of the time, the reference books, a dictionary...
...reason why General Education will not go the same way, particularly if the Faculty debates of the past few months are any indication. For instance, we were initially enthusiastic about the Task Force on General Education’s proclamation that “it is important to avoid confronting students with an overly-restricted menu.” Yet the issue of the breadth of courses that will count for General Education was completely neglected in the legislation—which was supposed to merely translate the Report into Facultese—and remained up in the air after...
...Summers moved out of Elmwood, the presidential residence, last summer, and he now lives with his wife, Professor of English Elisa New, in Brookline—out of the unrelenting public eye that followed him during his presidency. Even when he is on campus, Summers has managed to avoid the scrutiny of the Faculty members who played a defining role in his demise as president...
...Eighteen years of a lack of failure teaches Harvard students to avoid it at all costs; we become extremely risk-averse. Ironically, classes might teach about the risk-reward relationship, but students who are too afraid to fail can only understand the former part of that relationship after experiencing...
Pets played a role in some of Katrina's countless horror stories, and city officials are wrestling with how to avoid a repeat. During that dark time, cats were left for what evacuating owners thought would be a two- or three-day exile that turned into weeks or months; dogs chained in backyards were left to drown; and pets were separated from their owners at shelters, some never to be reunited...