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Redford lamented the corruption of not only politics, which he called a “system that takes good people and eats them for breakfast,” but also the media and Hollywood...
Rorty thinks we can have both by keeping the language systems separate. This stringent partition of human nature between public and private, however, comes off as callow. One would be very hard pressed to be an Übermensch over breakfast and a model democrat at the office. Only in a world in which language completely controlled human behavior would his “liberal ironist” paradigm become viable...
...potential; it is hard cash, not human capital that counts. Despite the assumption that “money corrupts” and that “things are getting worse,” the worries about higher education are misplaced. The marketplace will not eat the university for breakfast...
...under a tent outside the Science Center early Saturday morning as they prepared to fan out across the greater Boston area for Harvard’s first University-wide “Day of Service.” The day’s early risers were treated to a breakfast of bagels and doughnuts, as well as an address from University President Drew G. Faust, before heading off to work on 28 different service projects, ranging from landscaping to preparing meals for the homeless. With participants from all nine of the University’s schools, and with...
...stayed in a hostel during my first night in Paris. In the morning, after being prematurely roused by Australian backpackers and still-drunk Brazilians, I doddered down to the lobby for a complimentary breakfast and a second rude awakening. My illusions of Paris were quickly shattered during that meal: not only by the stale croissant, but by the horrors of MTV France.I had arrived in the patrie of Edith Piaf, Serge Gainsbourg, and Daft Punk—and in the summer of Justice, no less, the Parisian duo whose “D.A.N.C.E.” was omnipresent in America...