Word: distant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eliot's dream seems distant at the Harvard of today. Perhaps one of the reasons why the Core Curriculum falls short is that it allows students to pass through the Harvard sieve without having attained this crucial education. At times, a student's career at Harvard is much like a Lewis Carrollesque free fall--all the student can do is try to scrape some knowledge off the wall as he drops. But chance more than anything else dictates what each student gets under his fingernails. Enter the proposal for a required course in "great books." Such an addition to Harvard...
Star Trek "communicators" have always been the model for cell phones, but thick batteries and bulky electronics have made truly slim, light portables a distant dream. No more. Below, two new phones that would please Captain Kirk...
...inadvertent author of the memorable "bimbo eruptions" line and could often get emotional when defending her boss. But last Thursday Wright calmly turned the tables on her inquisitors. Asked about questionable campaign contributions, she said, "Senator D'Amato certainly had an experience with that in the not too distant past. Senator Dole is under scrutiny for it now. [Clinton] should receive the same benefit of the doubt Senator D'Amato and Senator Dole ask of the rest...
...Babbs and I fly south to ask our incarcerated editor a few probing questions. I confess I had some reservations. The famous professor had always been more a distant phenomenon than a close friend. Previous attempts at encounters had always seemed jinxed. In the summer of '63, my family and friends were booked for a high-level seminar with Leary and Richard Alpert at the International Foundation for Internal Freedom's paradise in Zihuatanejo. As we bustled through San Francisco Airport to our Mexicana flight, we saw the headline: DOPE DOCTORS ARRESTED AT MEXICO MANSION. So much for paradise...
...should not let the Unabomber represent activism today despite the negative associations that are pressed on activism. Give activism a better face because activism could only lead to a better America. Let America's majority and activists at Harvard representing America's majority be free from even distant associations with so-called "Freemen" in the backwoods of Montana...