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...that physical maladies strike their victims randomly. We would hardly think to accuse cancer patients, for example, of being punished for undisclosed crimes. But as with all behavior-related preventable diseases, some unexpressed part of our psyche--and it is crucial that it remain unexpressed--feels a need to assign blame. We could always blame the University's administration (after all, this is the editorial page) for its failure to design workstations conducive to our health, but when we consider the fact that most students use their own computing equipment, this accusation holds little weight. It would be satisfying...
...frame of an independent counsel give Starr's probe an ominous bulk even when it's idling in neutral, as it was during much of the year before the latest scandal exploded. "Any federal prosecutor has more resources than the target of his investigation, but other federal prosecutors must assign priorities among investigations," says Theodore Olson, a former assistant attorney general in the Justice Department who was investigated by an independent counsel for three years, then cleared...
Harvard likes to boast about the length of reading period, which theoretically allows students to forget about schoolwork over winter break and return to school rested and ready to study for exams. But when countless courses assign papers and projects with deadlines as early as the first week of January, "winter break" often turns into two extra weeks of academic work...
...intersession also forces another calendar oddity: the Wednesday-to-Tuesday shopping period, which prevents students from catching up on work for classes over a weekend--all the more reason to preserve a week-long intersession. Full-year courses that assign work over intersession also do their part toward destroying our only semblance of a vacation...
...have to be completely rediscovered. But he wasn't highly valued in the later 16th century or after. Giorgio Vasari, whose Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550) was the cornerstone of Western art history, paid him little attention, and later art chroniclers were apt to assign his work to other artists. And--just as bad--other artists' work was assigned...