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None of the book’s suggestions are groundbreakingly new. Nothing Bok says is truly exciting, but installing his improvements would strengthen the educational practices colleges currently have in place. His concern is not what changes to make, but how changes should be made...
...veritable geeky abundance at Harvard, we still have secrecy. We keep hiding these thoughts or at least think we should be suppressing them. Maybe we are worried that other students will forget their own geek-tivities when confronted and refuse to forgive ours. It’s a legitimate concern. But perhaps the bigger problem is that we are more focused on weaning ourselves out of our geekdom in order to get by—not at Harvard, but in greater society...
...People were kind of all over the map. We had a few good races, a few mishaps, but overall we did what we needed to do to take first.”In addition to the weather, in a NEISA event with so many races, depth becomes a chief concern for everyone.Fortunately for Harvard, it is one of the team’s strong suits.“We don’t really have a weak link,” Johnson said. “Some teams have one or two rock stars and a third that?...
...suggested that the set of courses that faculty members individually want to teach is not necessarily the best selection of courses for students—a remark that drew impromptu applause. Asked by one dad whether faculty tenure is an impediment to promoting excellence in undergraduate education, Summers expressed concern with the increasing age of Harvard’s professoriat due to tenure and federal laws that ban mandatory retirement. But Summers said he sees faculty tenure as important not only because it protects academic freedom, but because without tenure, he said, faculty members would be reluctant to hire...
When al-Qahtani still didn't break, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld personally authorized a series of harsh interrogation techniques for him. Concern about the legality of some of those methods prompted the Pentagon to outlaw their use in January 2003, barely a month after Rumsfeld authorized them. Gutierrez says al-Qahtani "painfully described how he could not endure the months of isolation, torture and abuse, during which he was nearly killed, before making false statements to please his interrogators." As documented in the interrogation log, at one point al-Qahtani became seriously dehydrated because of his refusal to drink...