Word: contentedly
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...going and why. For many people, the four years of undergraduate life offer the only interlude permitted for unfettered exploration of such fundamental questions. But the search for meaning is a never-ending quest that is always interpreting, always interrupting and redefining the status quo, always looking, never content with what is found. An answer simply yields the next question. This is in fact true of all learning, of the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities, and thus of the very core of what universities are about...
...curriculum I propose, in contrast to the virtually content-less core curricula at most of our leading universities, including Harvard’s new one and old one, involves 16 semester courses. Only three of the 16 courses—one dealing with American literature, one dealing with English literature, and one dealing with political philosophy—revolve around the reading of classic works...
...Such a core, through its structure and content, cultivates, among other things, the virtues of accurate reading and informed argument. These virtues transcend partisan differences and will serve students well not only inside and out of the classroom but in life beyond the campus...
...national consumer rights organization, and Harvard College Free Culture, a student group focused on technology and intellectual freedom. Both Oxman and Seltzer, a visiting fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, countered Green by arguing that consumers should be able to distribute and reproduce legally acquired media content without fear of prosecution. “We want to preserve the incentives that copyright law sets up, but it shouldn’t be by blocking reproduction at every place that it might happen,” Seltzer said. “Regulation can’t tell...
...female. Such was the case with Amanda Beard, who bared all in the July issue of Playboy. Many claimed that she was demeaning herself as a person, not to mention sending the wrong message about her sport. However, I’d venture to guess that Beard was pretty content with her choice: “It’s just a business decision, a career decision,” she said. Since then, she’s taken the 15 minutes of fame that she might never have received, even as an Olympic gold medalist, and turned herself into...