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...unstable, irrational and often contrary to one's moral and social duties. No culture in history has valued romantic love like our own, and yet there is every indication that this has not made for happier families or for more selfless individuals. The ancient Romans had the motto dux vitae ratio ("reason is the guide of life"). The claim that love can justify anything amounts to unconditional surrender before our own fickle passions and to the rejection of everything that moral thought should stand for. Alejandro Jenkins '01 is a physics and mathematics concentrator in Currier House...
...terrific Cajun food for a great price at Cafe Roux. If money is no object, get dressed up and head out to Dux or Chez Phillipe in the Peabody Hotel...
BLUE: A-say! A say, powerdong and efficacious Leader! Oh, as the common lilac brents in hanged aslaver, enfundus of the wapping sun, so do I gronch and toad beneath the glasp of your so blastred wanked eye, a loosome maggot nannyberry, poosant Dux, my muskled Congressman! I base, I base, and cronk the knee in volitude...
French Political Scientist Bertrand de Jouvenel has described two of the main categories of leaders as dux, literally leader, and rex, literally ruler. Dux is the activist and innovator, often an inspirational type. Rex is the stabilizer or broker or manager...
Harvard Government Professor James Q. Wilson, 45, distinguished dux from rex this way: "There is the goal-setter, or the critic, the person who says, 'Follow me,' who prods, challenges. Then there is the executive or the facilitator who is less concerned with setting goals. He is especially sensitive to the concerns of individuals. These two qualities are, for most people, incompatible. Yet some people can [be both...