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...from the administration), the new rule endangers students by providing a disincentive to bring drunken kids to UHS from a fear of getting a friend (or, say the president of the final club you’re punching) into trouble. It’s a shame the Administration has chosen to favor pedantic bureaucracy over student safety...
Passengers are chosen for screening by a “random mathematical permutation” generated the morning of the checks to guard against accusations of racial, gender, or religious discrimination, Venturelli said...
...developed the readiness to perceive new ideas and the initiative to seize the opportunity to use them to in moving both people and institutions forward. Although I never dreamed in the 1960s that Drewdie might one day become president of Harvard University, I believe that Harvard has chosen well...
...founding, the United States has tied its national identity to the power of education. We have long turned to education to prepare our citizens for the political equality fundamental to our national self-definition. In 1779, for example, Thomas Jefferson called for a national aristocracy of talent, chosen, as he put it, “without regard to wealth, birth, or other accidental condition of circumstance” and “rendered by liberal education ... able to guard the sacred deposit of rights and liberties of their fellow-citizens.” As our economy has become more complex...
Denis Johnson could not have chosen a more fitting title for his newest novel, “Tree of Smoke.” The novel is nearly as thick as a tree, reaching the epic length of 614 pages. And those hundreds of pages seem to contain nothing more than smoke.While each sentence, each paragraph, and each page is unapologetically lyrical and unabashedly grand, with a pronounced biblical undercurrent that promises depth, the work lacks substance, lacks true cohesion—lacks whatever it is that makes a work captivating, wonderful, or enjoyable.Despite its promise and its moments of greatness...