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...according to their website, “food at the Co-op is almost entirely vegetarian.” If I lived there, I would starve. I’m one of those people who eats meat at every lunch and dinner. In my opinion, and here I borrow a turn of phrase from University President Lawrence H. Summers, vegetarianism amounts to anti-Semitism in effect if not in intent, for as an ideology, it frowns upon those who love pastrami...
...contrary to Harvard’s social norms—not because the people have been persuaded otherwise, but because a culture exists that makes those views socially taboo. This creates an atmosphere where people will disengage from important debates because they feel intimidated to voice their opinions. To borrow from John Stuart Mill, the only way for an idea to prove its worth is for it to be challenged within an open marketplace of ideas. In such a marketplace, any idea, regardless of how abhorrent we might find it, should be presented and allowed to compete...
Robots were due for a comeback. In the scientific world, creatures made of metallic bits may have been replaced by ones with electronic bytes, but computers just don't have the charm of the anthropomorphized tin men from science-fiction past. To borrow a line from A Mighty Wind, they're so retro, they're now-tro. Will Smith proved that last year with I, Robot. Now the CGI cartoonmakers, having run through their bug, monster, fish and human evolutionary phases, are into talking gadgets. Pixar has Cars next summer. And the Blue Sky team, which enjoyed a hit with...
...going to borrow the words of Harvard men’s hockey captain Noah Welch and say that “I’m pissed...
...brain of a female is more interlinked and--if one assumes that a basic requirement of the post is to avoid dividing the faculty into two sweaty mobs--may be better suited for the kind of cautious diplomacy required of a high-profile university leader. Of course, to borrow a line from Summers, "I would prefer to believe otherwise...