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...even taking these preventative measures, I regret to say that I am now sick, but true to Homer Simpson style, I must hold that this illness is everyone’s fault but mine. Yes, I try to wash my hands before every meal, I get plenty of sleep, and choke down those immune system-building veggies. I avoid idly touching mucous membranes and (involuntarily) avoid any wholesale bodily fluid transfers. It is all of you who don’t get enough sleep, don’t eat right and suck face like there’s no tomorrow...
...We’re not, at least according to U.S. News and World Report. But more importantly, people who come to Harvard because they think it’s the best and because they assume they deserve the best, spend the next four years of their lives finding fault with all of the things that are not the best. Whether it’s the food, the public athletic center, the e-mail program or the teaching fellows who do not speak English, those who look for fault will find it. (A good piece of future advice...
...lost much: his career and his shipmates. His savings have been eaten up by legal fees. "My test has been, 'Am I willing to compromise my integrity?'" says Waddle. "I cannot tell you how easy it would have been for me to say it wasn't my fault--that the guys who worked for me made the mistakes. But I couldn't in good faith do that...
...didn't happen to. It's a fact, pure and simple, that no living African American has ever been the slave of a living white American!" "Even Southerners whose families owned slaves through the Civil War owe nobody a cent," insisted a man from Atlanta. "It's not their fault their ancestors were slave owners." Looking at the issue from another angle, a Texas reader judged, "I don't imagine Southerners could collect reparations for the property the Yankees took during the war, and we shouldn't try. Since all of us, including African Americans, are better...
Ross G. Douthat ’02 is a good guy whose columns I have enjoyed on many occasions. Nevertheless, I find it amusing that Douthat, who has probably never been exposed to danger a single time in his life, sees fit to fault the Bush administration for its “zero casualty” logic in his column “Appeasing the Chinese” (Opinion, April 16). Apparently, George W. Bush is a coward for having the patience and humility to bring our boys back home safely with relatively little damage to Sino-American relations. Ross...