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Summoned to steady the University after its fight with Summers, Knowles, and his longtime friend Bok, had a calming effect...
Before endorsing Harvard’s recent practice of videotaping lectures for online use, we must consider its effect on our pedagogical mission. Many see this as simply a convenience, one among many that modern technology affords us. They assume having access to lectures could only be helpful in the overall goal of education. In practical reality, though, lecture videos hurt students and the college as a whole...
...across the country, and, unsurprisingly, admission to Harvard College continued to be an impressive feat. Following a record high number of applications last December, acceptances plummeted—a slim 7.1 percent of applicants were offered spots in next year’s freshman class. This turn of events effectively vindicates the Harvard Admissions Office, which took heat last year with its announcement that it would eliminate the Early Action admissions program. Critics of the change opposed it because they believed eliminating Early Action would repel the most competitive applicants, who crave admissions decisions earlier in the school year...
...Supreme Court. As a sizable minority of conservative congregations leaves Episcopalianism, the struggle over who gets hundreds of millions of dollars of church property is becoming more and more intense. Passions range so high that the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts-Schori, the head of the national Episcopal body, in effect indicated during discovery in the Virginia case that she would rather see the churches sold and deconsecrated for secular purposes than passed on to the departing congregations...
...another Sadr ally, parliamentarian Ghofran al-Saidi, was far less willing to ease the pressure off the Iraqi government. She told TIME that despite Maliki's apparent act of goodwill, a blockade was still in effect around Sadr City Friday night, preventing the injured from reaching hospitals, and she saw little change after Maliki's statement. "There is a real resistance to this government among the people," she said...