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...says, before giving driving directions, "it's a nice gadget." The town square is tiny, with no stores or restaurants, and is encircled by abandoned 15th century stone and wood cottages that look like drooping gingerbread houses. It is the vision of a dying mountain town, except for the odd 5-m-by-8-m rectangular slab of metal perched on the rocky cliff above, like a giant shining postage stamp. By 10 a.m., with a computer adjusting the mirror's position, the sun is indeed ricocheting down to the piazza, but it's more like a light in your...
...Except for McCain's position on the troop surge, which polls show more than 60% of Americans disagree with, these stands are likely to only help these candidates when they start their presidential campaigns. While foreign policy experts generally haven't agreed with Biden's partition proposal, it further burnishes his credentials as a serious thinker about foreign policy issues. Obama's position on the war, which he was one of the few of the Democratic contenders to oppose from the beginning, is very popular with his party's base. And much of McCain's popularity stems from his work...
...done to combat the unfortunate focus that the public perception of Harvard’s presidential search has taken. As long as the activities of the presidential search committee are shrouded in secrecy, after all, they don’t leave much for us little people to do except make things up until we know the whom and, more importantly, the why, of their decision. Even if they were to make public their entire decision process, it is unlikely that anyone would believe that the next president of Harvard was chosen based on merit alone. That simply wouldn?...
First, Harvard plops its wards down to live for four years amongst the student body’s extraordinary miscegenation of peoples, places, and histories. Not really an accurate canvas of human diversity in any particular place except the Ivy League campus itself, the student body is more an unwieldy chimera manufactured to the specifications of Disneyland’s “It’s a Small World” attraction. (Which, incidentally, the theme park’s planners have tellingly relegated to an area of the park called “Fantasy Land...
...little over a year ago, 10 friends got together in San Francisco over a potluck dinner. There were a few teachers, a technology marketer, an engineer, a dog handler. What would it be like, they wondered amid the Christmas shopfest, if they all pledged not to buy anything new except food, medicine and essential toiletries for a year? Thus was born a movement that they named, in a light-hearted way, after the 1621 Mayflower Compact. "We are a group of individuals committed to a 12-month flight from the consumer grid," they wrote in a chat-room manifesto that...