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...lack of any real desire, on the part of most undergraduates, to go “home” for their supper. Closing House dining halls to non-residents will hardly make people suddenly feel attached to their Houses. After all, if House communities were strong enough to breed real attachment, most students would presumably avoid “dining out” in the first place.Then there’s the oft-made suggestion of Yale-style housing assignments. Lottery incoming freshmen into a House before their arrival at Harvard, and they will grow attached to their soon...
...attracted to Heathcliffs, Danny Zukos, and Johnny Castles, and I won’t stop gravitating toward the slacker in class who appreciates my study habits and takes advantage of my willing ear. Despite this penchant for punishment, my relationships are far from doomed. Wrong-doing rebels may still breed danger on the main stage, but we good women can pull the curtain down on our failing Florence Nightingale act. No more selfless nurse for me. No more Sandra Dee meets Mother Mary meets James Bond hussy. I’ll clean my own room, do my own work...
Indeed, a new breed of McCarthyism now endangers the American academy. It threatens the free exchange and expression on which our education is founded. And though it may start by menacing the few, it will end up menacing...
...manage a cluttered computer? You can use free software like Google's Desktop Search or Apple's Spotlight to find all the stuff you have misplaced. But a simpler, more effective strategy is to file things so you don't lose them in the first place. A new breed of organizing software programs can help you cope with information overload, acting as digital baskets for managing files, notes, lists and other random bits of data. Ready for some fall cleaning? Here are the top tools. --By Jeremy Caplan...
...Asian governments need to fight terror on multiple fronts. Both Indonesia and the Philippines should enact stern counterterrorism laws. Indonesia should ban J.I., enabling the country's security agencies to move decisively against it. And it should clean up the radical madrasahs that breed extremists, subjecting them to tougher law enforcement and pressuring Muslim religious and educational organizations to police them. In the Philippines, the authorities should shut down training camps through intelligence-led military action and through talks with the main Muslim militant group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front...