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...National Service Why this? Why not entitlement reform? Why not immigration? Yes, I admit, it's very much a personal preference-and a lonely one at that-but it goes to the heart of what makes for a healthy democracy. And I believe that the failure of my generation, the baby boomers, to sacrifice for the nation in any significant way, as our parents did, is the source of much of the sourness and corrosion that afflict our public life. In a new book, Are We Rome?, Cullen Murphy avoids the standard imperial clich?s but finds some interesting parallels, especially...
...veteran English teacher, I need to speak some ugly truths you will never hear from politicians or school officials: this country is full of clueless, disengaged parents who can't or won't control their kids. Many of my students shamelessly admit they never study, do homework or read books for fun. Meanwhile, I spend a lot of instructional time shutting them up, waking them up and telling them to put away their cell phones. I love my job and my students, but I'm tired of taking all the blame for education's problems. Everyone needs to be held...
...student groups have public leadership, however, the College runs the risk of discouraging these groups from hosting social events with alcohol altogether. If the policy is enforced, it places inappropriate responsibility for every partygoer on select individuals. If the policy is not enforced, then the College will have to admit to not being able to solve the problem it set out to eradicate...
...There are many appealing students who have no criminal records who we don’t have room to admit,” she says...
...Morgan, who one day in lecture randomly decried how busy everyone at Harvard “had” to be. He recounted a story of how impossible it was to arrange to have coffee with another professor, noting that it was “unfashionable” to admit to being free tomorrow afternoon. Instead, the other professor was apt to pull out the BlackBerry and suggest a date several months into the future, projecting a busy façade regardless of his or her actual schedule. This anecdote has proven strikingly apropos in more situations than I would...