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...Library of Congress and the "Book of the Month Club" conducted a survey in which they asked people to name the book that most influenced their lives. Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged ranked second only to the Bible. The Fountainhead, by the same author, placed 14th on the list. Yet Harvard is ignoring Rand, clearly one of the most influential American thinkers of this century...
...prolific writer, Rand did not limit her intellectual endeavors to one field but embraced a broad array of intellectual disciplines. Her most important contribution was setting down a complete and integrated philosophy: Objectivism...
...Harvard, Rand's ideas are rarely if ever mentioned in the classroom. Is Harvard indeed the liberal arts school that it professes to be? Does it teach its students the vast and diverse richness of ideas? Or has Harvard become the bastion of a dogmatic school of thought where a thinker has to conform in order to penetrate the thick walls of the ivory tower...
...only the philosophy department that is burying its head in the sand. The English department is guilty of the same evasion--its classes don't even mention Rand, one of the most widely-read writers of the century...
...League of the African National Congress and has not been ousted from Parliament. TIME South Africa correspondent Peter Hawthorne says the President had decided to fire his wife a number of days ago but did not take action until after Winnie chastised his government for spending thousands of rand on new tablecloths for ceremonies during Queen Elizabeth II's visit to South Africa last week. "I think that was probably the last straw," says Hawthorne...