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...edited, did your best to look like you’d fit in. You think you deserve it, but there’s no way to be sure. Now all you can do is wait. Sound familiar? Everyone at Harvard went through this. Filling out the application, honing the essays, trying to convince your mother that listing “international diamond theft” as a hobby would not result in legal action. Reasoning with your mother, who by now was hysterically shouting: “But what if they think you are a diamond thief...
Michael J. Sandel, who teaches the popular moral reasoning course “Justice,” recently posed an essay question to his students: Imagine you are a soldier behind enemy lines on a secret mission and unarmed civilians discover you. Should you kill them...
...dream of travel, in fact denounces the dystopia of the American Dream and its obsession with mobility of all kinds.Though Brouws’s social criticism is effective without being heavy-handed or militant, it is not immediately comprehensible to a casual viewer. Brouws recognizes this in his concluding essay, written precisely because of this ambiguity: “Beauty often merges with political or social content, even when those qualities seem at cross-purposes...[Photographs] can beautify a subject we normally might not deem beautiful.”There is no doubt that Brouws’s photographs...
...trivializing the man's merits and suggesting that what he ultimately did for his city and country was insignificant and self-serving. Recounting Kerik's rites of passage and twisting them into meat for conspiracy theories is petty and niggling. The intent to mask the story as a critical essay on loyalty - well, it just didn't make the stretch. Continuing to rip Kerik through Giuliani and Giuliani through Kerik is a trite and wearisome pastime, isn't it? Chris McLoughlin, Atlanta...
...Holiday Rush Thank you so much for Nancy Gibbs' essay about how bunching up the holidays for financial gain robs them of significance [Nov. 19]. I thought I was the only one who noticed the Christmas items unashamedly displayed in stores at the beginning of November. Christmas is a time for sharing and giving. Tricking consumers into spending is not necessary. Merline Jacques, New York City...