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...behavior qualified me as a slut. I don’t have a boyfriend or anything remotely resembling one. I’ve had a handful of intimate encounters and two dates since September. But next to the average Harvard student, I may indeed look slut-like. We frequently bewail our unwilling celibacy and lament the non-existence of our dating culture. Next to the average Boston University, Georgetown, or University of Arizona student, however, this behavior may look positively prudish. Regardless of how I rank overall, the fact remains that we, the students of Harvard, seem to have forgotten...
...court’s credibility, its integrity and the rule of law.” Amid all of their hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing over the perceived disregard for “precedent,” the Times, however, never bothered to defend the procedure whose prohibition they bewail...
Listen to Delbanco bewail our current solipsism in his fifth book, The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope: "If we fail to contribute to some good beyond ourselves, we condemn ourselves to the hell of loneliness." He notes that "the highest aspiration" of our "soul-starving present...is to keep the body forever young." He dares to use terms like destiny and Satan and still show his face in Manhattan, where Heaven and Hell are merely the names of competing downtown bars...
...anticipates yet another new politics, born of a wide and deep disgruntlement with the status quo. Her evidence for the coming revolution is thin. The low voter turnouts she and her shadow conveners bewail as signs of disgust might just as plausibly be taken for the sleepy indifference of a fat and happy populace. But her larger charge--that the two parties, in thrall to a self-satisfied elite, have become homogeneous, to the detriment of a robust political debate--is far more plausible. Anyone who doubts it should be forced to explain the difference between George Bush's "compassionate...
Each semester, academic purists bewail the corrupted, materialistic attitude with which we Harvard students consume our education. In a world where scholars have turned pre-professionals and the grail of knowledge has turned into the golden calf of human capital, academic purists are crusaders in an unholy land--Willie Lomans in a web of modern market forces. Today's students do not take classes. They shop for them. They do not read Courses of Instruction. They read the CUE Guide, the academic equivalent of Consumer Reports. It is no wonder that, for the first time ever, professors caved into...