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...bashing of student-athletes in your pages (Op-Ed, “Ending Athletic Preference,” April 29) has far exceeded its 15 minutes of fame. The latest piece by Nicholas F. Josefowitz ’05, is particularly insulting to student-athletes. Harvard is the way it is because the university recognizes that one’s college education is broadened through social and intellectual interaction with a group of peers different than oneself. As much as it kills some introverted geniuses, that group necessarily includes athletes. It is through these student-athletes that Harvard is most...
...nearly 2) and a DNA test proved he was the father. Nor does Blake rank as high as Simpson on the celebrity scale. Blake, his youthful promise long gone, is merely a washed-up actor; Simpson is a washed-up actor who is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame...
...Winners MAGIC JOHNSON NBA great is nominated to basketball Hall of Fame. Meanwhile, current Laker Jelani McCoy is a lock for the Sepi?s Sandwich Wall of Fame COURTNEY LOVE Mrs. Cobain spared a sanity test in lawsuit filed against her by ex-Nirvana band members. All parties agreed it would be a waste of time MICHAEL EISNER Top mouse sees Disney post $259 million earnings. New theme park attraction, Wall of Fake Breasts, certainly seems to have paid off Losers CHARLES MANSON Killer denied parole for 10th time. We?re surprised: Charles kept his cell tidy, flossed daily...
...history of the record industry. Forget that he produced 131 gold, platinum or multi-platinum records. Forget that he was recognized by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (the Grammy award people) for achievement in every major category. Forget all measures of Elvis’ fame relative to his time. One could still write him off as a relic—a “white trash icon” now relevant only in the minds of an increasingly geriatric fanbase. Let’s focus specifically on his enduring influence...
More likely, celebrity distracts from scholarship. In reality, there is little to gain by further inflating the egos of academics. The beauty of the life of the mind is that it is unadulterated by temporal concerns like fame and money. An academic’s habits need not resemble those of a Benedictine monk, but the driving force of an academic’s ambition should be truth for the sake of truth...