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...While I understand “jihad” may have had painful connotations in the aftermath of Sept. 11, the rush to condemn Yasin and sully the honor of being selected to address the Commencement ceremony—without any idea of the (actually benign) content of the speech—was a particularly damning moment for student civility. And evidently feeling that such character assassination should not be confined to campus, some of the critics went on national television to further bash Yasin...
...have served in Congress. Only two have held office longer than Robert Byrd, first elected to the House in 1952 and the Senate in '58. He has been around long enough to have served with a Connecticut Brahmin named Prescott Bush, the President's grandfather. With his white hair, benign tremor and penchant for quoting the Romans, Byrd seems more like a Senator from the 19th century than one from the 21st. He has never seen MTV. He refers to the camera in the Senate chamber as "the eee-leck-tronic eye." But due to his fierce opposition...
While the Pixarians aren't really boys, they are guys (all the top creative types are male) who radiate a benign youthfulness. The company, with headquarters in Emeryville, Calif., outside San Francisco, is a giant playpen, a kind of Erector-set tree house. Games and gadgets clog the office of head Pixie John Lasseter, whose uniform is a blindingly gaudy Hawaiian shirt. Nemo's begetter, Andrew Stanton, 37, looks a dozen years younger and decades more innocent. He, Lasseter and the rest seem like boys in love with their computer toys...
...denounce his father, a distinguished filmmaker. But one streak in him runs deeper than despair: the need to dramatize the social process that shapes boys into men. In virtually all his films--from his 1984 Yellow Earth to his new Together--a child falls under a teacher's benign or malign spell. Chen is thus replaying the privileges and nightmares of his youth and repaying a deeper debt to his father...
...Rudenstine, Summers recalls just three student artistic performances he’s attended this year, in contrast to his regular attendance at most home football games. Summers himself says his understanding of the humanities does not compare to his familiarity with social science. If he pursues a policy of benign neglect—or delegated responsibility, as when Summers directed the art museums to report to University Provost Steven E. Hyman—it might even streamline bureaucracy for the arts. Harvard’s artists have always enjoyed relative freedom from administrative control; even under the more culturally-savvy...