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Harvard's present system of awarding Ph.D.s makes it increasingly difficult for the University to attract top-notch doctoral candidates. Once, Harvard's mere name was good enough to ensure the best pool of doctoral candidates. But today, the rampant proliferation of highly specialized programs found at other universities offering integral Ph.D. programs in professional disciplines presents students with well-tailored options suiting their very specific academic and professional interests. Harvard's roundabout way of offering Ph.D.s, by contrast, is seen as less attractive and less cohesive...
Most Americans never hear about the issues that will make a difference in their lives. Instead, events that receive sensationalist treatment worthy of the muckrakers of the Gilded Age--such as the O.J. Simpson trial and Susan Smith's alleged murders of her children--hog the headlines. These are mere curiosities that have no effect on average citizens...
Newt Gingrich recently praised incendiary language as a key to winning elections. Use words like "liar'' and "traitor'' to attack Democrats, he said. Should anyone who values honest debate condone such advice? Is it much wonder that the unhinged can't make the distinction between mere name calling and damning opponents as the embodiment of evil...
...this day the author of the piece was not credited, a mere omission of a byline that had larger consequences...
...gender a particular dancer is; the women are as strong as the men and the men as graceful as the women. Everyone is androgynous and, for the most part, of undiscernable race, a superhuman grouof powerful, raceless, sexless beings, so talented that it is clear they could not be mere mortals...