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...soon as I envision this admittedly distant prospect, though, I can??t help but feel a measure of nostalgia, already, mixed with my exhilaration. Last summer, I spent a glorious week in Dublin at the National Library of Ireland, reading dusty volumes of 18th-century pamphlets for my thesis. In the world after Google Books has conquered all libraries and the Book Espresso Machine has delivered them all to bookstores around the country, will such trips even be necessary...
...can??t help but feel reservations. The challenge of looking for an elusive book is one of the singular joys of scholarship for me, part of what rescues it from becoming a mere exercise in pedantry or reinterpretation. Even Harvard’s relatively sensible library system has supplied me with a few pleasurable scavenger hunts. Now a Google search and a glorified Xerox machine threaten to supersede that entire process...
...never expected that people would get as worked up over Jon Corzine as they did over Barack Obama,” Lam said. “But I also think that it’s important for progressives to understand that you can??t just win one presidential election and have Obama wave a magic wand and make everything better...
Audience members praised both the delivery and content of his lectures.“With his words, he got us to think deeply about the way that novels work,” Turkish studies professor Cemal Kafadar said. “And we can??t help but emerge from this experience with a greater appreciation of his works...
...casual sex is normal, why do culture and academia need to remind us? Better yet, why do some radical feminists save their virginity? Why do at least 42 percent of Harvard students not have sex? Some declare that we just can??t get any sex, but if a larger percentage of the student body wanted the hookup culture, odds would be pretty good that more students could find...