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...some stereotypes are based on truth. Harvard is in fact a wealthy place: more than 80 percent of the Class of 2009 hails from the top half of the national income distribution. It can also be difficult for students to garner personal attention: the student-to-faculty ratio is higher than Yale, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania. And an internal Harvard memo from 2002 revealed that Harvard students rate their campus’s social life below many of their peers at other elite schools. The memo, first reported in The Boston Globe, ranked Harvard 26th...
...with all these amazing people." That's certainly how we felt at Time in the presence of 25 of the individuals we had selected to feature in our third annual European Heroes special issue. Dmitruk, who's from Ukraine, was there because last fall she dared to tell the truth about the country's rigged presidential election. Some of the other Heroes at last month's London event included screenwriter Richard Curtis and musician Bob Geldof, who were recognized for their work to keep Africa on the world's agenda; Herbert Grönemeyer, Germany's biggest rock star...
...greeted his entrance at Kaine's victory party last week. Warner has begun traveling the country to test whether his brand of bipartisan pragmatism has any place in the polarized arena of national politics, saying, "Americans want somebody who is going to be straight with them, even if the truth may not be what they want to hear...
Veritas is dying at Harvard, and we must look no further than our classrooms to see this tragedy unfolding. With even the best lecturers, truth comes across as an inert object in a fixed world. We are turned into empty receptacles for this pre-packaged knowledge, which we are then expected to regurgitate upon command. Implicitly, our curriculum dictates that we passively accept this rigid veritas and, correspondingly, the way the world is. Theoretically, the discussion section that accompanies so many of our lecture courses is the place for this veritas to come alive. It is our chance to challenge...
...simply because they feel his work violates “a consistent standard of decency and tolerance.” It should be a function of free speech and debate to present all opinions in the open marketplace, thereby enabling people to arrive at the correct understanding of the truth. To this end, speakers invited to Harvard should be given a chance to present their views without fearing constant disruptions and disrespectful behavior. We strongly condemn the actions of a vocal minority of protestors, many of whom were from Harvard Students for Israel (HSI), at Thursday’s event...