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Delbanco cited a new environment, as one of the primary reasons for his departure from Harvard. "The opportunity at Columbia is such an exciting one that I would be foolish to turn it down," Delbanco said...
Whatever the motives and intentions of the Administration, it would be supremely foolish to reject any Soviet overtures to limit Star Wars development, as at least some in the Pentagon desire. The problem is that the Administration's contention that space-based defense offers a better avenue to deterrence than mutual assured destruction ignores the scientific consensus that a fool-proof missile defense would be impossible to achieve and prohibitively expensive. Proceeding indiscriminately with Star Wars development only offers the hope of a budget-draining resumption of the arms race in outer space, because, as the history of the nuclear...
...that the greatest season in a long time for Harvard men's soccer is finally over, the booters can rest easy, proud of their achievements this year and comfortable that the squad will be forever known in the annals of sport as an upstart that made everyone look foolish for underestimating them...
...Jesus in every home. Christian forgiveness was a contemptible refuge of the coward"). In the New World, far from the color and tradition, Don Corleone takes an even more brutish view: "Live your life not to be a hero but to remain alive. With time, heroes seem a little foolish...
Fortunately, the question is not an overly difficult one. Academics must not be considered a haven from the system, mystically exempt from the forces of politics, economics and society. Harvard is a shiny cog, but it is a cog nonetheless. If it acts unjustly, it is hypocritical and foolish to defend it on grounds of some superior, ubermensch morality...