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...Fresh ideas. I don't sense that conservatism is exhausted. There's new thinking on domestic policy that could serve as the basis of an interesting agenda for the G.O.P. nominee. Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam explain in their forthcoming book on "Sam's Club Republicans" how the G.O.P. can do a better job of responding to the anxieties of working and middle-class Americans in areas like tax policy and health insurance, and the Ethics and Public Policy Center's Yuval Levin suggests a complementary policy agenda--"Putting Parents First," he calls it--aimed at those same swing voters...
...certain point, as I sat in a grand room at the New York Public Library and heard Titanic director James Cameron explain why the bone box in front of him might have held Jesus' remains, I began thinking fondly of Rev. Raymond Brown, one of the 20th century's great historical-Jesus experts. Reading him was no joyride. His footnotes seemed to have footnotes. But that was the point. His scholarship was such that even when one of his books called the virgin birth "unresolved," it got a go-ahead from his Roman Catholic Church...
...Harvard School of Public Health shows that consumption of ice cream and other high-fat dairy foods is associated with a decreased risk of one type of infertility. Fat-soluble foods are thought to improve ovarian functions, and the study’s authors say that fact could explain the decreased infertility rate in women who consume regular dairy foods. Inversely, low-fat dairy foods were associated with a higher risk of infertility. According to the study, the issue is especially pressing because the “Dietary Guidelines for Americans” suggests a daily intake of three servings...
...Aunt Hagar’s Children” for the New York Times Book Review last August. But Eggers said his goals as a reviewer are appreciative rather than evaluative.“I write reviews when I love a book and I feel like I can explain it,” Eggers said. “I just feel like Edward P. Jones is underappreciated and under-read, so I felt that I would do what I could to explain his work and bring it to new people.”At Monday’s talk, Lindh Professor...
...begin with its near obsolescence. It cannot, for instance, take complete advantage of new syndication tools to gather customized, pertinent information for Harvard undergrads. This leaves the determination of much of my.harvard’s content to the staff of Harvard’s IT department. While this explains the portal’s emphasis on university-wide news and resources, most of which holds little significance for undergraduates, it does little to explain why a rethinking of the site has not yet occurred in the face of such utter mediocrity, of which “Harvard Happenings?...