Word: detractions
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...meaningful conversation almost impossible. Perhaps it is the masses of weekend party-goers that roam our campus for parties and mooch alcohol from students they have never met. Perhaps it is simply an aversion to seeing clueless first-years dancing on coffee tables. Whatever it is, it seems to detract from the pleasures of spending time with friends over a few drinks. As we allow alcohol to become an end in itself, we miss out on a more appealing drinking culture...
...only other concern brought forth is the misguided belief that cable broadcasting in individual dorm rooms will detract from the substantial sense of community that the House system brings to Harvard. But judging from the other “quality entertainment” that Harvard students engage in each weekend, it does not seem that a little cable programming will hurt. On the contrary, it could actually enhance the House system by allowing every dorm room to become a center for gathering. Cable can help every room become a common room—and without having to barter for your...
...across America before making their way to Europe (Rome, to be precise) on July 24. The mobs were the idea of Bill, a twenty-something New Yorker who says only that he works in the "culture industry." Bill doesn't want to be identified because he thinks that would detract from the mob's appeal. Interested in the social reasons people go to see performing arts, he began to ruminate on what would happen if the performance were taken out of the equation. So he invited the 50 people on his e-mail...
...textbooks. Like the titillating contention that the most popular radical works of the Enlightenment, such as the influential Thérèse Philosophe, which follows a young woman's sexual and philosophical development, "were from the genre of philosophical pornography." Vive La Revolution's chatty informality doesn't detract from its rigor. Steel is not a historian, but he's done his homework. Even Revolution buffs may find surprising new facts - like the 15-min. bathside chat Charlotte Corday shared with revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat before murdering him - or provocative takes on old ones. The tale...
...Niger yellowcake uranium imbroglio concerns a piece of intelligence Washington knew was bad that was nonetheless restated in President Bush's State of the Union address. A bureaucratic snafu, says the Bush Administration, and one which doesn't detract at all from the case for war; in fact it was hardly a significant part of that case in the first place. Indeed. But three months after taking control of Iraq, the deeper question looming on the horizon is less how one item of bad intelligence slipped into a keynote speech than how so much of the intelligence the Administration...