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...brief attention spans, bred by a lifetime of 30-second commercials and trigger-happy video games, doom the few causes that actually do get our blood boiling. Say “cable TV” and we’ll salivate long enough to elect you UC president; but don’t expect us to give a crap next week. We won’t. But this time at least, after the results are certified, we’ll be left with the Class of 1967, their long-incipient laugh-lines and bloodshot eyes staring us rather callously...
...Since the establishment in 1996 of a popularly-elected UC president and vice president, the top leaders of the council have always been bred within it. Experience gives insider candidates a list of accomplishments to be touted as well as the baggage of initiatives gone awry. And this year—as every year—the outsiders are banking on the fact that the latter will outweigh the former...
...idea came to mind. Because openings into joints can let bacteria in, I had kept Manuel on oral antibiotics. But I recalled an experiment done with lab mice bred in a sterile environment. Without any bacteria around they couldn't heal cuts in their skin. Maybe my antibiotics were suppressing some bacteria that were needed to coax these knee wounds to heal. So I stopped the antibiotics and brought Manuel back a week later. No dice - still no change...
...Sicilian Mafia, founded in the mid-19th century as a protection racket in Palermo, is the master template of the modern organized-crime network. Yet its success is grounded in paradox. Cosa Nostra is a multinational conglomerate based in the backwater of Sicily, an organization bred in violence that accumulates power best when it maintains internal peace. It is an association of men - sometimes men of extraordinary influence and charisma - yet the Thing is always bigger than even its most powerful bosses...
...painful break-up at the end of four years. By heading for home, one kisses one’s classmates, nascent New Yorkers all, goodbye. Even more difficult is abruptly ending a four-year long romp with the American dream, bidding farewell to the expectations of greatness bred into every single Harvard student by our education and our peer group. The hubris of American culture largely trickles down from the elites educated at schools like this, and even a conscientious objector is hard pressed to emerge unmarked by an irrational conviction that things in this country are, in fact, bigger...