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Although traditional Cambridge would abhor the notion of abolishing public schools, Condit says that the dire state of Cambridge’s schools—among the state’s best-funded and lowest-scoring—will turn Cambridge towards libertarianism...
...forgivable, Condit has let pass all his opportunities to play the innocent. An early admission of the sex, a loud rejection of guilt, and an energetic and public search for the missing girl, might have diverted the media into a less-interesting missing-persons adventure. But while dature may abhor a vacuum, dark media suspicions flower in one. Condit's public pose - the politician's equivalent of pulling your coat over your head - has left the hordes one of two impressions: of a cowardly (and foolish) innocent or a cagey monster...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure...
...Clear all those hurdles, and there's still the fact that donors abhor a vacuum. McCain has been the first to admit that soft money was already supposed to be illegal - making it illegal again won't change the fact that it won't be long before lawyers and money, like nature, will find a way back in to the political process...
There are many fallacies to the comments made by Harvard officials against corporate sponsorship. First, I doubt Harvard's argument that alumni abhor the idea of corporate sponsorship. Such abhorrence, if it exists, probably lies only in a small group of older alums...