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...most of these instances, Summers can only be faulted for being too much a public intellectual and too little a politically aware university president—a fault of excess, perhaps, but not a fault that should have cost Summers his job. Too often, he was viewed under a microscope by a Faculty which appeared to look for, if not outright hope for, Summers, and his vision for accelerated change, to fail...
...sake as well as the immaturity of adolescent gamers. Again, this critique is nothing new; loftier versions of these accusations have been leveled at Handel and Bach for their own contrapuntal (mis)adventures. These compositions may be seen as pedantic, heavy-handed, passionless or academic. But without the occasional excess of ornamentation, Baroque would never have lived up to its rococo potential, math rock would just be rock, and legions of bored teenagers would never have laid down their controllers for guitars.--Staff writer Will B. Payne can be reached at payne@fas.harvard.edu...
...gambling. Says an indignant Christine Keshen, a member of Canada's women's curling team: "If people can't lay off of him for what's going on back home, they need to realize this is the Olympics." And that is the point, after all. In spite of patriotic excess, overpowering wedding banquet music and all sorts of anxiety, it is the refuge of sport that keeps athletes and fans coming back for the Olympics, summer or winter. No matter what is said in Dante and his Inferno. For the words to remember are exactly the opposite of some...
...that is the point, after all, in spite of patriotic excess, overpowering wedding-banquet music and all sorts of anxiety. It is the refuge of sport that keeps athletes and fans coming back for the Olympics, summer or winteran exhilaration felt with the U.S.'s first gold medal on Saturday, won by Chad Hedrick in the men's 5,000m speedskating event. No matter what is said by Dante in his Inferno. For the occasion, his famous line should read, "Reclaim every hope, ye who enter here." Let the Games begin. 34 Team U.S.A.'s magic number to match...
...strip on the editorial page. Sometimes they don't run it at all. The Los Angeles Times yanked a 1972 Trudeau strip about a diplomatic visit by Nixon and Kissinger to a distant and alien land: [the poor Los Angeles neighborhood of] Watts ... Trudeau's most inspired excess was the Nixon-era strip in which Radical Disk Jockey Mark Slackmeyer ends a surprisingly fair "Watergate Profile" of John Mitchell with the remark that "everything known to date could lead one to conclude that he's guilty. That's guilty, guilty, guilty!" Trudeau later explained that he was only trying...