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...said that he approved of HAA’s choice and that Lehrer had been picked “on account of his insight, compelling views, his personality, and that he’ll be an excellent speaker.” “As far as Commencement is concerned, the message is more important than the name and I think he’ll be brilliant,” Moore said. Matthew J. Glazer ’06, former Undergraduate Council President, also commended the choice of Lehrer as speaker. “Mr. Lehrer is an eminent journalist...
...abroad and a government analyst, the answer is yes. In the midst of his diatribe against international and interdisciplinary studies, Adomanis manages to advise students to “take a course in ancient Greece, read Plato, or learn a foreign language.” Given Adomanis’ concern with international competitiveness, one wonders why he would so shackle those language students by gutting study abroad. I remember an Arabic course taught by Harvard’s William Granara as one of the best I ever took, but surely Adomanis recognizes the incomparable advantage of studying modern languages...
...case with the MCAS, those errors that are built into the process can result in erroneous, damaging decisions,” he said. Nate MacKinnon, a staffer in the Massachusetts Department of Education Commissioner’s Office, said that scoring errors on the MCAS are not a concern because of the department’s long grading timeline. The tests are administered in the spring every year and the scores are returned between the middle of the summer to the beginning of the fall. “We don’t have anything like rushed scores that involve...
...That change might be less of a concern if the U.S. had more confidence in the Iraqi troops. But the recent rise in sectarian tensions has contributed to a deep uncertainty about which Iraqis the U.S. can trust - even in what was once the safest place in Baghdad. Sitting at a heavy oak desk in the Ministry of Defense, a senior Iraqi general concedes that his own troops, who guard the maze of blast walls leading into this corner of the Amber Zone, have questionable loyalties. The troops, he says, are underequipped, "not well trained, not professional...
...Talal has ties with the Arab world, as the Crimson headline alleges. But if the imagined “strings” are really so worrisome, shouldn’t we expect to learn why these “ties to the Arab world” should be a concern? In all the press articles which aim to alert us to this problem, the most “evidence” that is ever cited is that New York Congressman Anthony Weiner wrote a letter to Harvard President Lawrence Summers “insisting the prince had direct ties...