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...working round the clock to re-carpet the Yard with emerald sod. Californians will cease complaining about the "brutal" Boston climate. But a plurality of us probably won't notice the seasons changing unless it might be the basis for an essay question on the midterm exam of some forsaken science core...
...folks Levi's intends to eliminate are not toiling away in some southeast Asian sweatshop. They're Americans, like us. Now our moment of fleeting pity escalates into a moment of fleeting concern. Americans they may be, we comfort ourselves, but they probably work in some forsaken Pennsylvania factory and wear shirts with their names embroidered in cursive above the breast pocket. But the defense mechanisms that protect us from the moral tentacles of empathy are foiled yet again. The men and women being axed are not blue collar. Actually, they're wearing white shirts and ties and might even...
Owing to this pressure, Harvard has already forsaken its motto. It now offers its students a diversely hall-marked experience instead of anything resembling veritas. Truth demands a sobering progression toward it and away from everything else. The heady democratic ideal of limitless experience, by contrast, encourages permanent disorientation, immoderate openness and intransigent immaturity. Once a promiser of maturity, our university is now an apologist for adolescence...
...spite of the fact that we all claim to go to school in Boston, very few of us head across the Charles River and actually go to the city. And no, a trip to the airport to escape this God-forsaken area of the country in the middle of winter doesn't count...
...wept in the bleachers. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge attended. A group of cheerleaders, in uniform, placed photographs of the town's 21 dead on a makeshift altar. The first speaker, the Rev. Jerry Uppling, began his invocation with Psalm 22: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken...