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...Harvard fashioned by these administrators might resemble less an institution of higher learning than The Teaching Company, whose ads for its “great books” taped lectures appear regularly in the New York Times book review. In faculty meeting earlier this month, Porter Professor of Medieval Latin Jan M. Ziolkowski perhaps put it best with a two-syllable “haiku” about the Harvard College Courses: “Ka-ching!” In a previous column, I mocked administrators for lacking the creativity to come up with a name more interesting than...
...those ambitious enough to clamber out of their little towns without joining the Army—or who are lucky enough not to hail from those little towns in the first place. And it is the names of the kids who weren’t rich or lucky that appear almost every day now in the New York Times, followed by their age and their rank and their hometown...
BACK IN THE DAY, YOU KNEW LENNY BRUCE. AND TODAY YOU OCCASIONALLY APPEAR ON HOWARD STERN'S SHOW. DO YOU THINK THERE'S SUCH A THING AS CROSSING THE LINE IN COMEDY? I guess you can do that if you do an insulting ethnic joke or something like that. I work blue, very blue, you know. But I'm also working in Vegas for an all-adult audience. Sometimes I see parents walking out of the show with their kids who are, like, 10 years...
Unfortunately, it would appear that the world isn’t quite ready for Dartboard and his kind. Dartboard thinks his next step should be to begin the fight for social tolerance, but first he’ll go ahead and grab another Red Bull...
...there's any irony in the idea of the U.S. military paying salaries to insurgents as an incentive to get them to stop fighting, that doesn't appear to be stopping the military from considering a similar plan to co-opt Sadrists into security forces for the Shiite cities. Brig. Gen. Martin Dempsey of the 1st Armored Division has proposed creating a Najaf Brigade to police the city, which would initially comprise 1,800 men drawn from militias loyal to local tribal chiefs and to the various Shiite political parties, and could include members of Moqtada Sadr's Mehdi militia...