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...first time ever, The Crimson found itself in a bind when voting on an Athlete of the Week...
...same time, we're trapped by the double bind of voyeurism, appalled at what we witness, yet unable to take our eyes away. Here again Walker allies herself with the writers of 19th century slave narratives who knew all too well that violence and sexual titillation wee useful tools for attracting readers to the horrors of their plight. Walker admits to her "love for the unnecessary flourish," and it is precisely those formal details, whether salacious contours or languorous gaps, which captivate and torment...
...have so many students been applying to Harvard's Early Action Program lately? The numbers of students applying under Early Action increased fairly steadily during the 1980s and 1990s, reaching 2,990 in 1994. In that year, Yale and Princeton Universities switched from early action to bind early decision programs, and Stanford University, which had never offered an early program of any sort, adopting binding early decision as well. During the 1995 and 1996 admissions cycles, about 3,900 students chose our non-binding Early Action Program, and we experienced a slight increase to 4,200 this year. The number...
Unhappiness seems to bind many of us too often. It's remarkable how many of our conversations here are what Georgetown socio-linguist Deborah Tannen would call "troubles talk," and what most of us fondly refer to as "venting." Even while attending the world's greatest university and being offered so many options and opportunities in every direction, many of us remain dissatisfied. Most Americans would give their right arms to enter this bastion of our misery...
Likewise, a beneficent tyrant could better provide for domestic tranquillity. He could prevent crime much better than our courts, and he could punish it more justly since the generality of the law does not bind him. In addition, a beneficent tyrant probably could better manage our economy than does the current, fractured system of the Federal Reserve, the President and the Congress...