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...last oppressed peon. Everything they do and say has been done and said before. But they simply refuse to admit it. The result is not epic cinema as David Lean defined it but as Bette Davis used to play it at Warner Bros. -- where history was a branch of melodrama and the subtler emotions were Xed out on the second-draft screenplay...
...evaluating the reasons why physicists are pursuing business careers, employment seems to be a strong motivating factor. "Right now the job market in physics itself is pretty dismal, especially with the recent cut of the SSC. It really decimates one branch of physics," says Bass. The SSC, the Superconducting Supercollider, was an $11 billion particle accelerator in Texas whose funding was cut by Congress in October...
...trifurcating centralized political power into the executive, legislative and judicial branches, the Founders intended only the first two partake of the creative, dialectical process of law-making. The sole charter of the judicial branch, by contrast, was (and in theory-remains) to interpret the law in a political vacuum, outside the purview of such pesky political concerns as lobbyists or voters. Judges are not policy-makers. They are professional interpreters invested with the challenge of studying leather-bound volumes, not the latest Gallup poll...
...Senator from Maine can change mindsets as easily as he can don a flowing black gown. Still, in the eyes of the American public, will it be clear that, a matter of days after retiring from the Senate, he will speak as an agent of a wholly separate branch of government indebted to a wholly separate set of standards and precedents...
Although I managed to branch out a little in my sophomore and junior years, I have never felt like l've come face-to-face at Harvard with anything that could remotely be considered the Other, except for the Society for Creative Anachronism. So I recently looked at myself in the mirror and said "Mike. It's time to broaden your horizons." I decided that I had to spend the last few months of my educational career drowning myself in the vast river that is Harvard's diversity, hoping, like Marlow, Ahab and Arnold before me, to transform myself...