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House: Kirkland Concentration: Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality Hometown: Sleepy Hollow, NY (heads do, in fact, roll) Ideal Date: A picnic dinner followed by a late night (skinny) dip in Walden Pond. What do you look for in a girl/guy: A feminist sensibility. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Look for the gaggle of unruly gay men and listen for Lady GaGa and I’ll be in there, somewhere. Your best pick up line: Wanna see me burn my bra? Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: That stylized flannel you?...
...where top administrators are taking pay cuts of up to 10%. “Harvard should be a model for the world,” Pearce says. “And part of that is having a community that values all of its members. Our campaign really comes from fact that we love the Harvard community, and it would be a tragedy for it to be broken up by layoffs. It’s coming from a place of love rather than a place of rebellion...
...center of a truly moral education. Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics listed “greatness of soul,” or “magnanimity,” among the principal moral virtues—as the “crown” of the virtues, in fact, without which the other moral virtues cannot properly exist. For one who exemplifies all the moral virtues—an ideal toward which men of a previous age continuously would strive—proudly disdains base and trivial matters and values not material goods as much as the well-deserved respect...
...segregating the races is a way of treating them equally and that forced sterilization to improve the gene pool is a swell idea. Generations of doctors bought into Freud's theories of mental illness. Eminent military historian John Keegan traces the catastrophic stupidity of World War I to the fact that European nations began training their smartest officers to make strategic plans. Eventually, they made such fine, lean plans that, like concentrated ozone, they exploded on contact...
...Which was more likely, they asked - that "Linda is a bank teller" or that "Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement." Overwhelmingly, subjects chose the second answer, even though simple logic shows that each additional fact makes the answer less likely to be true...