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...only is this an arbitrary and unjust distinction, it offers little real comfort: Detaining a U.S. citizen without the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus may be illegal, but the only way to challenge an illegal detention—to assert that one is a citizen and deserves basic legal rights—is through a habeas corpus petition. The idea, then, that we are immune from government incursions on our legal rights is a frightening Catch-22, one that leaves us entirely dependent on the propriety of military investigators...
...particular notion of what “learned men” ought to know or how they ought to act, we exclude the diversity of undergraduates who beg to differ. Striving to breed an army of investment bankers unencumbered by a clear set of values and a basic understanding of the society in which they live is, after all, much more politically correct. With the passage of our new undergraduate curriculum, the Faculty have finally woken up to what any good relativist could have told you decades ago: Harvard’s curriculum is finally as much of an incoherent...
...less than a second class program within FAS. Consequently, we hope Expository Writing will be discarded and replaced by a new system designed from the ground up.We hope that the defining feature of this new system is that it would be mandatory only for students who fail to demonstrate basic competency on a beefed-up writing placement test given during freshman week. Most students who stake Expository Writing in the spring do just as well in writing-intensive classes before taking Expos as afterwards, and anecdotal evidence suggests that students get more out of writing in classes they enjoy...
...Life is not the same as normal society. There's not enough money to go around. So somebody is going to have to go without the basic necessities they need. The other thing is, we worked really hard. There might be one woman who would try to maintain life in the home, and then everybody else had to work. I worked as a teacher and I gave Merril all my money. It was just a mandatory requirement. You'd turn everything in. He pays the bills and then he gives...
...When we discuss what keeps us up at night,” says David S. Rosenthal ’59, director of the University Health Services (UHS), “there are two basic issues...one is an alcohol-related death and the other is suicide.” Rosenthal notes that UHS began collecting data in earnest on alcohol-related issues as early as 1989. Since that time, UHS has noted a steady escalation of both acute alcohol-related cases and an overall escalation of admissions to UHS for alcohol-related issues...