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Maier Professor of Political Economy Benjamin M. Friedman ’66, the calendar committee member who dissented from the final report, wrote in a memo accompanying the report that he doubted that synchronizing the calendar would necessarily make cross-registration easier for undergraduates...
Friedman also charged in his memo that the rationale for shifting the timing of the academic year and creating a monthlong intersession was premature...
...invites this reluctance to engage on serious levels with the intellectual ideas and concepts that face academia. A closed, unwelcoming, thoroughly unexciting process is not very likely to produce an exciting, revolutionary idea. Note that nothing has been accomplished beyond a short “interim report” memo from Gross and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, which merely outlined in superficial terms some of the questions that face the curricular review—including the obvious and uninspired (“communities of learning,” “student research?...
Unfortunately, the CIA and the FBI have found al-Qaeda a hard target to infiltrate. Worse, as Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld mused in an internal Pentagon memo, radicals who hate America are being turned out faster than we can arrest or kill them. Whatever we do to the original members of al-Qaeda, a new generation of terrorists similar to them is growing. So, in addition to placing more cameras on our subway platforms, maybe we should be asking why the terrorists hate us. If we do not focus on the reasons for terrorism as well as the terrorists...
...FRIENDLY FIRE? A sarcastic comment about a legal memo written in 1978 by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger reveals erosion in the friendship between...