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It’s rejection season. Common casting, Crimson column, performance group and Harvard fellowship rejections all went out on Monday. I am one of the many to weather a major disappointment: I was not chosen as a Crimson columnist for the fall semester...
Walter Shapiro, columnist for the USA Today, sunk to the depths of condescension in his piece about growing campus activism against the impending war. He used to be anti-war himself, he wrote, when he was a student and the US was preparing to carpet Vietnam with napalm and bombs. Then he grew up and lost his innocence. “Nothing my generation has done in life could prevent the human tragedy of last week.” True, but get ready for the quantum leap in logic. Because we couldn’t stop the terror attacks...
...Shearing is playing piano, I'm listening to the piano...Whoever invented the paper clip is a genius...Someday they'll send pizza pies to your house like faxes, and boy will that make money." By looking inside instead of outside, King effectively cut the workload of the modern columnist by 98%. Once voice recognition replaces typing, the other 2% will be taken care...
...people questions in neighborhoods that were sometimes dicey. Neighborhoods, I'm told, that had no decent restaurants for expense lunches. Back then, when the concept of news was limited to what happens to other people, editors wouldn't even consider something as monumental as a columnist's own mother's wedding to be newsworthy...
...keep up with the lifestyles and financial interdependence of modern couples," he says. "I'm campaigning to make these policies non-discriminatory." ? Not everyone agrees that the Homsi case is a valid example of bias. "Discrimination mainly applies to circumstances where people have no choice," wrote Sunday Telegraph columnist Mary Kenny. "Brad and Anna did have the choice, and they chose not to marry." If the policy is to change, where should the government draw the new, blurry line to replace marriage? Says Reah: "If you can prove that you're a long-term established partner, you should be treated...