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...These “blind letters” have traditionally asked professors to rank a list of candidates without providing information about them or specifying which is most seriously under consideration...
Mendelsohn said that other universities complained that Harvard was “playing games” and pushing secret agendas with its blind rankings. He said the new letters would address this complaint by directly stating if Harvard departments already have a favorite choice...
Your story on Clark quoted a colonel who worked for him at Fort Hood, Texas, and said Clark "tended to have a blind spot on the human dimension ... And it hurt morale: soldiers respected him, but they didn't love him." When and where is "love" required in military training? I respected but never loved my squad leader, platoon leader, battalion commander or post commander. Yet I guess there must have been a lot of other low-morale, "hurting" people out there. What a bunch of bull, Colonel. If you're looking for love, you're looking...
...backstabbers. The people who applauded her before the war?and they weren't only Germans?were the same ones who condemned her afterward. Her fascination with Adolf Hitler wasn't different from anyone else's at that time. In the prewar era, a passion for Hitler, whether it was blind faith or political maneuvering, was a common phenomenon. Was Riefenstahl's art fascist at that time? One must ask whether there ever was a country that didn't praise itself or its people. Isn't the human striving for godlike perfection, as captured in Riefenstahl's film Olympia, a trait...
González Leiva, 38, is the president of both the Cuban Foundation for Human Rights and the Brotherhood for the Independent Blind People of Cuba. He is also the director of the Ignacio Agramonte Independent Library. He earned his law degree (remarkably) while completely blind, but has been prohibited from practicing ever since the regime learned of his oppositionist activities. On March 4, 2002, he organized a peaceful protest outside the Ciego de Avila city hospital to express solidarity with an independent journalist, Jesús Alvarez Castillo, who had been brutally beaten by Cuban State Security. Along with...