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...their bodies and souls. There are still vestiges of this mentality left. The College has, for instance, decided that freshmen need more rules than upperclassmen, and that is why the freshman proctor is more an enforcer than an advisor. Randomization itself was a heavy-handed, top-down decision to alter upperclass housing that had nothing to do with education by books per se; it was a decision about which groups ranging from the UC to this newspaper’s editorial board bitterly complained, although it is now heralded as visionary. And Sex Signals and the mandatory diversity training freshmen...
Stephen Dedalus, James Joyce’s literary alter ego, once described the trappings of Irish culture as nets that hold a soul back from flight. By his standards, Harvard has soared...
...That same route, by the way, could also make the Washington-State-raised Chicago resident eligible for a prize as Most Canadian Non-Canadian to Live Outside of Canada.) While at art school in Vancouver in the 1990s, Case played drums in a couple punk outfits. Her upbeat alter ego from those days still surfaces regularly when she sings with the New Pornographers, Vancouver's indie pop-rock supergroup. And Case has also been in cahoots lately with Toronto twang-rockers, the Sadies, who share song-writing credit on a few Fox Confessor tracks and add instruments...
...White House has touted its growing strategic partnership with India on this trip, it is still very much wedded to Pakistan. As National Security Adviser Steven Hadley put it, Pakistan is at once a ?battleground and an ally? in this war. Not surprisingly, President Bush refused to cancel or alter his visit to Pakistan after the Karachi bombing."Terrorists and killers are not going to prevent me from going to Pakistan," President Bush said during a press conference in India shortly after the bombings. Privately he told aides, according to a senior White House official, that ?anyone who thinks...
...works. Libraries, including our own, which have been working on this problem for the better part of the past decade, face similar financial woes.The importance of digitization goes well beyond the mere benefits of secure storage and widespread distribution networks, though even on their own, these things will dramatically alter our interaction with content. Digitizing works, particularly those in the public domain or under reuse-friendly licensing schemes such as Creative Commons (creativecommons.org), allows them to be catalogued, searched, shared, chopped up, and incorporated into new works. It’ll make the difficult work of historians easier, it will...