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...graduate of Yale Divinity School and not of one of Harvard’s. Even if the Quincy co-master has erred in giving Ms. Adams’ an intellectual pedestal to speak, at least we are spared the embarrassment of having produced a graduate capable of such drivel...
...making the right bet about the success of nation-building. There would be overwhelming pressure on the White House and members of Congress to present a detailed and unambiguous statement about how they plan to introduce a working democracy into Iraq. There would be no patience for jingoistic drivel if we each knew that a misinformed decision about war would cost us our retirement nest-eggs...
...British musical domination are gone, and are unlikely to return any time soon. Even if they do, the Brits will probably be riding the wave of global music rather than driving it. But no matter. In Britain and throughout Europe, there's reason to cheer. The Pop Idol-driven drivel that controlled the charts in recent years seems to have peaked. Great music is being made in the U.K. and finally being recognized. Just ask the Brits...
Stone appears to be similarly enthralled with Havana’s darling dictator. His documentary film, entitled “Comandante,” is filled with toadying pro-Castro drivel. Stone spent some 30 hours with the Communist tyrant last February, and the movie represents a compilation of those interviews. To say that the director lobbed him a series of softball questions would be a gross understatement. In fact, before Stone was even allowed to begin taping, Castro reportedly demanded the right to reject any questions he didn’t find acceptable. Also, he was allowed to order...
...they are reading—or sometimes even to read it at all. For example, my junior history tutorial last semester required weekly exercises to demonstrate the skills of source identification and provide detailed progress reports. Yet once I had finished producing the three utterly worthless pages of weekly drivel to demonstrate just how hard I was working on my project, there was no time left for meaningful work on my final paper. Quantity was the watchword of the class, not quality. And it was hardly a one-off. Response papers and their ilk (including the ubiquitous ID sections...