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...philosophy of pedagogy when there were numbers to be adjusted, and neither does Lower today. (We’ll give Lower a little slack, because, in addition to grades, he’s also adjusting the number of faculty.) Could it be that Harvard students-hand picked for their anal-retentive, over-achieving zeal-regularly produce the “work whose excellent quality indicates a full mastery of the subject,” the College definition of an A? Would it be surprising if an era of SAT-coaches, AP classes, and elementary schoolers seeing college counselors current Harvard...
...only up to a point. If you’re “afraid of anal sex,” as the latest Contact poster blares, and need someone to talk you out of that silly phobia, than Harvard is the place for you. If you want to learn about French cinema or the Russian avant-garde, attend Taiwanese cultural festivals and watch Filipino dances, then come aboard, Harvard can help. If your idea of diversity is a freshman class, like mine, where roughly five hundred students hailed from either Massachusetts or New York, than this University is as diverse...
Crosby says he didn’t alter his routine much to prepare for the photo shoot. “I’m pretty anal about working out five times a week for an hour and a half or a couple of hours,” he says. He then equivocates: “Well, I’ll admit, the shoot was at 1 p.m. and I did eat breakfast. But I didn’t eat lunch until after the shoot at 3. I usually don’t skip meals willy nilly like that...
...offending facility. Once the porcelain gleams again, they will hand a yellow card to the toilet's manager promising a second round of inspections. Seoul's commode cops have done 12,000 inspections and issued more than 7,400 yellow cards in the past two years. Call that anal-retentiveness, but there's no chance that image-conscious South Koreans will be let down by a less than polished potty. According to Pyo Hae Ryung, director of a citizens' group working with the Task Force: "Korean toilets got lucky with the Cup, it's a chance that comes every...
What makes film such a powerful medium is that it combines the randomness of a performance (the camera performs, the actors perform, the production designer performs) with the indelibility of the final print. The problem with computer technology, besides allowing these tin-britched anal retentives to bleach E.T. of any distressing theme, is that it diminishes the performative aspect of movies. In Sean Penn’s recent movie The Pledge, Robin Wright Penn was digitally given a gap tooth in post-production. Every move, every twitch, is perfectly calculated. No longer do actors interact with the special effects?...