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Harvard needs to learn from history and avoid replacing one academic fad with another. The Task Force’s focus on “today’s issues” is just as arbitrary and transient as the “ways of learning” system developed and introduced in 1979. Nothing in the new General Education proposal convinces me that within thirty years another revamping won’t be needed. Instead the College needs to foster a return to liberal arts proper—a place where knowledge is not taught to develop abstract modes...
...training matter. Instead, our time is a continuation of every time before us. The great ideas that percolate today are direct descendents of the great ideas of our collective past. Therefore, Harvard College needs a general education curriculum that revolves around this past instead of blindly embracing a new transient whim...
...report should not scare people away from seeking treatment. “[In] large literature reviews the actual number of suicide attempts and completed suicides is lower in people treated with medication,” Kadison wrote. “The early risk is probably due to transient side effects of increased energy and jitteriness when people first start medication before the antidepressant effect kicks in, which can sometimes take two or three weeks.” Both Barreira and Kadison said that treatment for depression should involve vigorous oversight by medical professionals. Barreira estimates that six percent of Harvard...
Despite Rove's statement thatRepublicans' loss of their congressional majorities was a "transient, passing thing" [Nov. 20] and not a judgment on the President, the American public roundly expressed its dissatisfaction with the Bush Administration, a dissatisfaction certain to resound throughout the pages of history. Bush is an honorable man, but he let himself be led astray by people like Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney into an unwinnable war. I'm not certain the Democrats can get us out, but the public clearly believes it's worth letting them...
...Catholic school's P&F to scrub the suburb from its organization's name. Unemployment here is high, particularly among boys and men with low levels of education. Families live in small apartments; hope one day of a better home, with a yard for the kids, gives Lakemba a transient disposition, says Conlon. Yet, as in many parts of Sydney's western suburbs, what was a dull main street a decade ago has become lively. On any day along Haldon Street, you'll see women covered head-to-toe pushing prams, restaurants that are busy around the clock and clothing...