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Such a consensus is essential if Harvard is to function effectively as an academic community. Many theories are controversial or offensive but are accepted for debate in academic circles because they live up to common intellectual standards of validity. Yet there is no absolute standard that ideas must adhere to. While it is correct to display displeasure with certain theories, it must be proved that their offensiveness outweighs any claims to academic validity they may have...
...city of Boston is a $1 billion corporation and at some level needs to function [as well as a private corporation], so many of the management skills necessary are the same," Neal Sullivan, director of the mayor's policy office, said yesterday...
...kouroi ("youths") that in the 6th century became the chief expression of the Greek belief in the human figure as the earthly signifier of the divine. Advancing rapidly in style from decade to decade, the kouroi appear to be the first examples of art for art's sake, their function as temple statues and grave markers taking second place to the opportunity they offered the sculptor to reach ever closer to ideal form...
...incident sparked discussion on campus of the University's function as a forum for dissenting opinions and free speech, but Laub said yesterday that the trial "is not political...
...Abrams added, "There are worse ways forlegal systems to function than with a touch ofillusion here and there...