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Tucked between Eliot House and the University Lutheran Church, the modest two-story building on 21 South Street is an apt architectural metaphor for the organization it houses. The headquarters of the Harvard Advocate is more picturesque than pretentious, and save for a crest on the building’s facade, the quaint white siding and green window frames belie the literary clout that lies within...
...scientists study one of the most important aspects of our lives: They, more than others, need to be relevant. The impulse to measure phenomena as closely as possible is respectable, but students of government should remember Harry Truman’s quip: “Being too good is apt to be uninteresting...
...Congressional influence” instead of letting Mills illustrate it: “When one thinks about power between A and B there is a tendency to view the relationship as unidirectional,” Manley intones. “With influence, the relationship is more apt to be seen as a mutual process of stimulation.” For pages, the protagonist and his antics are never in sight. Where’s Wilbur...
...thanks to the possible election of Obama. It is bizarre how secondary that epochal change now seems. It's as if Jesus had returned - but just afterward extraterrestrials landed, and as a result everybody stopped paying much attention to the holy dude. But it's also a perfectly apt and gratifying turn of events: candidate Obama positioned himself as a smart, steady character who happened to be black, and the economic emergency that helped ensure his election has pushed the fact of his race and its heavy symbolic freight into the shadows of public consciousness. Once the crises have passed...
...land, our population, our natural resources. China has similar advantages today, and partly because we have already been there and done that, paving the way, it has been able to develop in fast motion, cramming 100 years of development into 30. But I'm reminded of Philip Johnson's apt, bitchy description of Frank Lloyd Wright during the forward looking 1930s "as the greatest architect of the 19th century." Twenty-first century China is the greatest country of the 20th century. Muscular industrialism gets you only so far. Further increases in productivity and prosperity require ingenuity and enterprise applied...