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Behind these three centerpieces of the Summers presidency lied a coherent philosophy of higher education based on learning through scientific method. The goal of his policies was to ensure that Harvard would be guided by enlightenment values, seeking truth in rigorous theory and empirics, not in fads and certainly not in popularity contests. Summers is flawed, but even his flaws are often by-products of his greatest strength: his ceaseless desire to learn and promulgate the truth...
...others were sporting. Abstaining from the bubbly, he light-heartedly mocked the celebrants with a sarcastic take on a protest chant overheard at an anti-Summers rally. “Racist, sexist, anti-gay. Larry, Larry, go away!” he shouted. “Larry spits the truth, yo,” he added. –Daniel J. Mandel
...regard the hubbub over the possible risks of vaccines as silly (which it may be) and the growing trend among some parents not to vaccinate as dangerous (which it almost certainly is), I'm sure those docs thought they were doing us hysterical moms a favor by fudging the truth. And 20 years ago, we may never have realized what they were up to. But these days, any parent with a PC can do a quick Google search to determine the exact degree to which their physicians are treating them like children. Even the most obscure medical studies are easily...
...couple of other tracks, then they come back and buy the whole album. We're not frightened of any of that. I don't believe that the album unit will just disappear. Our job is to make albums people want." In the brave new digital world, one truth of the industry's economics remains unchanged. Typically only 5 to 15% of a label's artists - the megastars - bring in the cash to pay for the rest. That's why artist development - finding the next Radiohead or Kanye West - is critical. Grooming a new or niche act into superstardom...
...more of an ethnic celebration”—akin to St. Patrick’s Day for Irish-Americans and Columbus Day for Italians, Engerman said. Another historian at the DuBois Institute, James C. McCann, noted that schoolchildren now know the names of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. “That’s real progress,” McCann said...