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...were going to die of organ failure waiting for an organ from a cadaver, would you accept a pig organ instead...
...outside the year Didion chronicles: while the book was in the final stages of editing, Quintana died. Didion explicitly chose not to add an account of her daughter’s death to Magical Thinking. That fact in itself augments Didion’s refusal (in the book) to accept the possibility that Quintana could die, and gives a heartrending overtone of futility to Didion’s fierce maternal desire to protect her. “You’re safe. I’m here” is Didion’s mantra, her reassuring magical thought that...
...Though President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 has said only a centralized student center will solve what he calls the “crisis of social space,” without the money or power to make it happen, he forces himself to accept sacrifices.“Having the resources of a student center decentralized,” he wrote in an e-mail to the Crimson, “is certainly better than not having them...
...verb. “Friend whore” and “poking” have also acquired novel meanings in everyday conversation. Facebook etiquette, though still in its initial phases of development, considers questions such as: how long do you have to wait before you can accept someone who friended you? How well do you have to know a person before you can friend them? Is poking always flirting? And how often can you remain on the updated profile list without looking like a complete tool? Of course, there is the distinct possibility that facebook.com is simply a mechanism...
...easy to assign blame for the Katrina relief fiasco?there are plenty of targets. It is much harder to accept responsibility. What went wrong? The American people persist in voting for political demagogues who promise them continued services for lower taxes. Government is not, despite what former President Ronald Reagan claimed, the problem. Nor is it, as others have asserted, a beast that must be starved. Government is society's means to collectively address problems that are too large or costly for individuals to handle. In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve. By shortsightedly choosing lower taxes...