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...such statements, many teachers place their fear of silence in sections, uncertainty and desire for good standing among their students ahead of their instinct to challenge and force students to attain more sophisticated levels of analysis. Desirous of positive CUE Guide ratings for friendliness, responsiveness and sensitivity, they abandon their Socratic obligation to mold student minds through challenge and query...
...Killer Germ is a Frankenstein's monster built from our collective neuroses. To fight this new battle, I now think that everyone, even exhibitionist models with a knack for sensuous hand gestures, should abandon their Purell. Except me. I haven't been waging the germ war because I'm afraid of getting sick. I like being sick. It means I get to stay home and watch that little yodeling mountain climber on The Price Is Right. No, I'm waging my own secret, illogical germ warfare because that way, when the end comes and it's just me and Mandel...
...plotting and easy moralizing. It is, in fact, a script trapped forever in development (and sometimes in turnaround), as each new generation reinvents the past according to its needs. That the governing board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, that most cautious of Hollywood institutions, would abandon the town's ruling narrative conventions and embrace historical indeterminacy by voting--without dissent or demur--to present this year's honorary Oscar to a proud, fragile, now almost silent old man named Elia Kazan is astonishing. And to some of its constituents, adherents of both...
...Harris' course" have "frittered away a valuable opportunity to explore unfamiliar intellectual realms" is to assume that the average Harvard student is incapable of being driven to a higher level of understanding through already-familiar realms of academia. A much more attractive and positive assumption would require us to abandon the view that Harvard students always look for the easy way out and sometimes take a course with a familiar title in the catalog in order to advance to a higher level of understanding within the particular subject...
Seniors lobbying on behalf of the Development Office proudly trumpet the fact that our gifts, matched by other donors from earlier classes, will go to financial aid in the form of a "Class of '99 Scholarship." But unless the College is about to abandon need-blind admissions, it seems likely that an additional scholarship might only free up dollars for other projects. Moreover, the fact that so many of us are so disinclined to give unrestricted gifts--"Well, if I give, it will be to financial aid," is commonly heard among seniors these days--indicates the general and rightful displeasure...