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...faster, more complicated and less forgiving, and figure their children's best chance of making it out there is to shine, from kindergarten onward, in everything they do. These high expectations can fuse with the view that no setback is ever just bad luck: it's always somebody's fault - though never their own, nor their child's. While parents will accept human frailty in other areas of life, says New South Wales Primary Principals' Association president Roger Pryor, "in schools they expect everyone to get it right first time, every time...
Last Saturday’s Springfest Afterparty was a $16,000 failure. And it wasn’t Mother Nature’s fault...
...chief problem with this year’s Afterparty was the lack of a big draw. When the contract for a Snoop Dogg concert fell through, the party lost its indispensable attraction. Granted, the failure to sign Snoop Dogg was not entirely the fault of the UC. The security costs and restrictions demanded by the Boston Police Department made funding the concert impossible without Harvard’s help. Following this, the stinginess of the College and the President’s Office put Snoop out of the question. Replacing a big name performer with student bands...
...Oresteia” is excellent, experimental, wildly ambitious theater, and its like should be encouraged—ambition like this is not a fault. A word to the HRDC, which, like a parish church, distributed collection envelopes in “The Oresteia” Playbill: put politics aside, please embrace the cutting-edge, and take risks. More of the same of this sort is good. (Similar attempts at experimentation should be more encouraged...
Hastrup takes what is called the “Dover Beach” approach to the current Senate debate over the President’s right-wing judicial nominees: high mindedly pronounce both sides at fault, and tell one, the Democrats, to surrender (“end an unjust war and take the high moral ground”). The issue is really not one of principle, but of simple fairness. Having gone out of their way to obstruct in unprecedented fashion President Clinton’s judicial nominations in committee for eight years, Republicans are now determined to fill many...