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...extremism and fuel its fire. Iraq today may be a down-and-dirty training ground for terrorists, but Saddam's Iraq was their five-star hotel and bank. Things in Iraq aren't ideal, but they were worse before. Kenneth A. Rumbarger Trooper, Pennsylvania, U.S. After reading Newbold's essay [april 17], I was about to write a scathing letter asking why the General waited so long to make his views known. Then I realized that I never made my views known either. I strongly opposed the Iraq invasion, but like many others, I chose inaction. I stayed silent...
...being a little harsh, of course. The Times' survey comes with a lengthy, elegant essay couching the whole project in a comfy coccoon of critical nuance, pre-emptively name-checking "the deplorable modern mania for ranking, list-making and fabricated competition" before vigorously succumbing to it. (It also includes the regrettable phrase "in the age of James Frey." Moratorium? Who's with me?) It's not the least of its sins, but it has to be said that the Times list is aggressively boring. I was surprised and pleased - like running into a dear friend at a deadly dull cocktail...
...thousands of schools have joined TurnItIn despite the intellectual property concerns expressed by Berkeley and others.And Zittrain, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, does not think that TurnItIn infringes on intellectual property rights because, as he wrote in an e-mail, “the essays won’t be read by anyone and will just be retained to see if someone *else* cribs that student’s essay.”WESTSIDE STORYWestside High School in Omaha, Neb., is already a TurnItIn subscriber. Westside alumna Jillian J. Goodman ’09 thinks that...
...there are, when they lie about their past experiences, there is a risk that they are underestimating their possible sexually transmitted diseases,” said Rosenbaum. Janice S. Crouse, a Senior Fellow at the Beverly LaHaye Institute, which works with the Concerned Women for America, wrote in an essay criticizing Rosenbaum that her research “purports to show that virginity pledges are ineffective,” thereby furthering the “left’s agenda.” “Clearly, the left is at it again—taking...
...thought your TF was harsh. In a New York Times article published last month, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Nonfiction Sven Birkerts was deemed “the worst writer of his generation.” The piece, written by journalist Greil Marcus, lambastes Birkerts in a recent review of essays. “Perhaps [Marcus] views himself as the presiding eminence and guardian of the hipster 60s,” retorts Birkerts. That would explain the journalist’s “obviously bitchy” remarks says the maligned scholar. Marcus quotes a line from Birkerts?...