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...discussion by professing his veneration for the 7,500-word document, only to have his fellow Law School professor Michael J. Klarman sharply criticize the Constitution for its irrelevancy and endorsement of values that should be rejected, such as slavery.“We are responsible for our own fate,” Klarman said, refusing to give the original framers of the Constitution or the Supreme Court credit for the “many things about our political culture we can take pride in,” primarily civil rights protection. “To delude ourselves from thinking...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Souter Debates Constitution | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...Whatever you do, Corky, no matter what’s going on, just be honest with them and tell the truth.” But the audience forgets her presence in the film almost as easily as Whitacre forgets her advice. His wheedling coworkers suffer a similar fate; it’s only really possible to differentiate the other executives at ADM by their horrible ties. Most tragically, the comedic gifts of Toby Hale—known best for his role as Buster Bluth in “Arrested Development”—are squandered during his brief...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Informant! | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...there is a fate worse than obsolescence. It’s the kind of obsolescence that doesn’t realize it’s obsolete, the sensation you get when watching your mother try to “make a blog.” I see it happening all around me. Politicians and professors are all having Rip Van Winkle moments. They lie down for a brief nap after some ninepins, wake up, and suddenly everyone around them is “tweeting.” But then, unlike Rip, they decide to join in. Anyone who?...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Hitting the Technology Wall | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...country will judge Obama’s first-term success based on the fate of health-care reform. Everyone knows it, and the national debate reflects this reality. However, the craze has pushed a second reality into the shadows: that the grand arc of history will evaluate Obama’s success as much based on his administration’s actions to combat climate change as on its health-care reforms...

Author: By A. patrick Behrer | Title: Don't Forget Waxman-Markey | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

...their “sense of scale,” or actual effects on the budget, and requested that Smith provide a guideline to help administrators better correlate cuts with numbers. Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Professor Peter B. Machinist ’66, who expressed concern about the fate of “smaller humanistic fields” that may be in “some peril,” asked Smith to iterate his intellectual priorities...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: FAS Cuts $220M Deficit in Half | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

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