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...style, it has no overt political message; no easy, retroactive moralizing about the sins of our ancestors. Achieving the nation's "Manifest Destiny," it implies, was not a great quest or a great crime but a kind of communal neurosis, a manic need to chart the uncharted--an endeavor people in the play are constantly, fuzzily describing as "freedom." Yet those great white spaces of terra incognita on the map are being filled in faster than the maps can be redrawn, and the result is something like a mass nervous breakdown...
...German uniform hastily tailored to a higher rank, or by the outrageous claim that their train is special because it is deporting extra-dangerous communist Jews. These are examples of the whimsical and creative view Train of Life takes on practically every aspect of the shtetl's endeavor...
Pagett says difficulties are inevitable in any endeavor that mixes academic work and real-world consulting so thoroughly...
...lectures summarized online say that the service not only provides inaccurate information but represents a copyright infringement on their intellectual property. Versity.com makes its money from running advertising banners on its Web site alongside the lecture notes, which are free to view. Regardless of the legal status of the endeavor, it is unethical for outside corporations to make money off the presentations of Harvard professors, and we find it more concerning that students seek to profit from the professors' academic work...
Thus, the teachers and administrators see this as less of a job and more of a family endeavor...