Word: columnizing
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...often on these pages we read criticism—of College advising, of University stinginess, of the president and the provost and the deans, of Harvard’s living wage policy. I could fill my entire column just listing everything students find to complain about—some of it, in my opinion, warranted, but most of it not. These critical checks are certainly important—the essence, you might say, of our free market society...
...Parthian shot” to “parting shot”: the former version of the phrase retains the allusion to Parthia, that ancient West Asian kingdom whose inhabitants employed the charming tactic of firing arrows backwards while they were fleeing, or pretending to flee, battles. Treat this column as a series of shots from Southeast Asia. I have no advice to give. I’m just telling my (unabashedly enthusiastic) story...
...exchange for a course that is truly worthwhile, unlike the many watered-down Core classes that offer what the Core Committee believes to be a “manageable quantity of knowledge.” The persistence of the Core’s “one from Column A” mentality suggests that concern for bureaucratic convenience has trumped any deep commitment to the educational philosophy that the Core is intended to espouse...
...note, whenever people talk about "family values," they're not talking about us. But come by on Sunday nights and take a look at our rickety family--the one pieced together from leftovers--and it will seem as healthy, happy and "normal" as any in the "married with children" column in the Census...
...Dickinson's column on a study in which the drug fluvoxamine (or Luvox) was used to treat children with severe anxiety disorders [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR HEALTH, May 7] said that when children in the study were offered behavioral therapy alone, only five children showed improvement, while, when given Luvox, 76% showed swift improvement. Neither cognitive nor behavioral therapy was a component of this study. Dickinson mistakenly used "behavioral therapy" as a generic term referring to the "supportive therapy" offered to the children...