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...testament to their heroes' own. Milton gave Satan the height of a colossus in order to emphasize the magnificence of his opponent. Similarly, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had Holmes near quavering when Professor Moriarty first filled his doorway: "My nerves are fairly proof, Watson, but I must confess to a start when I saw the very man who had been so much in my thoughts standing there on my threshold. His appearance was quite familiar to me. He is extremely tall and thin, his forehead domes out in a white curve, and his two eyes are deeply sunken...
...wisdom of Meeks and Weil only recently seems patent. The remarkable fact is not that prisons proved to be uncongenial places for moral improvement, but that it took so long for the U.S. to recognize and confess the folly. The outlook always should have been grim. Riots have beset American prisons from the beginning. But those manifest failures along the way were only specifically disappointing, not generally disillusioning. A spasm of violence at a particular prison, epidemic madness at another, each was explained away as a technical error: the cellblock configuration was wrong, the recreation policy too lenient...
...guanxi are powerful enough to keep the Chinese citizens safe from surveillance. People are watched not only by intelligence agencies but by every organization that affects their lives. In China, one is guilty until proved innocent, and once accused, the only way to be absolved is to confess. As Butterfield notes, there is no word for privacy in the Chinese language, and there is no room for privacy in Chinese society. China, agrees Bernstein, is a true police state, a society that has "prohibited without providing...
FOREMOST AND FIRST, I want to confess a secret admiration for the most maligned group at this College, true scholars. Though too much of my undergraduate career was spent cutting classes (an activity about which I boasted, for reasons that now escape me). I did see enough lectures to know Harvard's oldest heritage is safe for a good many years to come. Stare around; the glorious supernova that was Walter Jackson Bate in our day, and hot ascendant luminary that in Stephen Jay Gould, to name just two. I didn't have the time to write a thesis...
...150th lb class. That committed him to wrestling at the same weight the following day at Columbia but instead he wrestled at 142 lbs. That is cheating. I fail to see the "technical mistake" (despite the use of the word "technical" five times in Strauss" article) though I must Confess that Harvard's coach has made other similar mistakes in the past which I should be delighted to chronicle, if challenged...