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...birthday, Hope was able to receive a taste of the postmortem praise that awaits him. As was widely reported, due to a darkly comic technical snafu, the Associated Press prematurely announced Hope's death on its web site. Some members of Congress got wind of this and rushed to extol his virtues for the sake of the Congressional Record and C-SPAN audiences everywhere...
...should I raise my children? Is it enough to extol the virtues of Thomas Jefferson, Willa Cather and Lou Reed? Or should I learn Spanish and make sure they do, too? Will they feel culturally deficient if all they know is America the brave? I feel pressured to take advantage of my opportunities at Harvard and learn about more ethnicities...
...fascinating to watch someone who has made boxing his life extol the merits of the sport, but there is also something undeniably sad about seeing the man who coached Rocky Marciano having to defend the sport, and even to sell...
...inflammatory work that made him an outcast in intellectual circles. (Harvard students will most likely forgive that transgression after this newest publication.) The second is Libertarianism: A Primer by David Boaz, who is vice-president of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank in Washington, D.C. Both books extol the virtues of a libertarian doctrine for American governance...
...inappropriately) latched on to sex, and people are taking precautions. However, influenced as our generation is by the "looser" mores born of the sexual revolution, our sexual conservatism is clothed in risque attire. We hide our concerns about the implications of sexuality behind witty posters that seem to extol sex; we subscribe en masse to a big dating game, with the hopes of finding our truly compatible mate. Perhaps that is the irony of our era--we talk the talk of sexual freedom, and then retreat to our computer dating services with a bag full of condoms...