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...Instead, Greenhouse, who is also a former Crimson editor, instructed the future lawyers—some, as she noted, future Supreme Court law clerks—about the “10 Things I’ve Learned While Covering the Supreme Court.” Beneath the courtroom’s high-ceiling rafters, graduates, friends and family members in Austin Hall’s overflow seating watched as HLS Dean Elena Kagan praised Greenhouse’s coverage. “I don’t read the opinions [of Supreme Court justices] anymore,” said...
...robs us of our authenticity; how many of our actions, consciously or not, are based on what we’ve seen done before? Proust can insist “not only upon suffering, but upon respecting the originality of my suffering,” but that perspective vanishes beneath the weight of life previewed. Of course, we aren’t the first generation to grow up with movies and television. This effect existed before, but it is a matter of degree; our simulation differs by being more realistic, more complete.In the aforementioned Postal Service song...
...Still, there was something else beneath the surface of the speech that caught my attention. Perhaps it was the fact that only a writer who hasn't actually been edited for decades could describe the act of removing snippets from his work as a "grisly" endeavor. Taking ideas and combining them with other ideas in order to create a new and more effective chain of thought - isn't that called editing? If universal electronic access to books mean that readers will now tackle the editing themselves, Mr. Updike, in his century spanning career - comprising, by my casual estimate, perhaps...
...most horrific damage occurred in the district of Bantul, south of the city, where the tremor pulverized hundreds of houses, burying sleeping families beneath the rubble. Those lucky enough to escape dug for survivors with their bare hands. Electricity and phone lines throughout much of the city were disrupted, and Yogyakarta's airport was temporarily closed due to damage, diverting much-needed relief flights. Makeshift ambulances picked their way along cratered roads to hospitals and clinics choked with the injured. Nurses laid the wounded in folding beds outside the buildings, for fear of aftershocks. Even more crowded were the morgues...
...sight of a German Pope crossing into the death camp beneath the infamously false Nazi sign, "Arbeit Macht Frei? (Work Will Set You Free), is arguably the most striking image of Benedict?s 14-month-old papacy. Walking alone with his hands clasped in front of him, an utterly grim expression fixed across his face, the 79-year-old pontiff entered as both the leader of the billion-strong Roman Catholic Church, and a World War II-generation German citizen. ?To speak in this place of horror, in this place where unprecedented mass crimes were committed against...