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...presidential candidate. Let's be clear about this: anyone who imagines Donald Trump in the White House has the brains of a stale bagel. Donald Trump makes Ross Perot look like a giant. Jesse Ventura was the first man, aside from the men in Mr. Trump's employ, ever to make this imaginative leap...
...nearly one quarter of the student body received [the] email." If that is indeed the case, the convergence of a mere two opinions falls far short of justifying the article's blanket sub-heading, "Students say loss of privacy doesn't bother them." If a journalist chooses not to employ legitimate survey tools, she is surely obliged to refrain from broad generalizations, especially when dealing with samples as large as one fourth of Harvard College...
Although Pinkerton and Security Systems International (SSI), the two main security subcontractors in the Boston area, will not disclose how much they charge the University, officials and the guards themselves say the figure is around half of what the University would pay to employ its own guards...
...argue further for irony, I am going to use Soren Kierkegaard's The Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates. I do this not only because it will make me look smart, but because I get to employ the underutilized o. Like that crazy Socrates, who made fun of his interlocutors while pretending to compliment them, Kierkegaard uses irony to force his opponents to avoid rehearsed answers and confront their true beliefs. He even wrote under pseudonyms like Hilarius Bookbinder, Nicolaus Notabene and Constantin Constantius. In the world of 19th century Christian philosophy, this is sidesplitting stuff, trust...
Purdy is certainly heir to this tradition of highlighting the exemplary individual, and what is remarkable is the extent to which he seems to understand and to successfully employ the techniques and the tropes of American environmentalist literature. What these techniques come down to, at bottom, has always been the recognition that logic will not suffice in altering the common perception of human responsibility.The environmentalist's have believed that, ultimately, it is not logical consideration that brings people to hopeless irony, and that redemption too will be effected not through logic but through passion and commitment.The use of the exemplary...