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...more of this abbreviating bullshit: “heyyyy.” “sup?” “nm, u?” “brb.” “k.” Those days are, thankfully, coming to an end. Give your fingers a rest. Cut the middleman. Unless you’re ugly, in which case typing is just fine...
When a successful class is defined by acquiring the minimum amount of necessary information in the minimum amount of time, then something is off. Lectures should be interesting, not just useful for the midterm, and when we budget our class time we give up on this basic intellectual ideal. The nuances that get cut with an economic approach to class time are what make the Harvard academic experience more than four years of test prep. When we drop them, we drop learning for its own sake, that clichéed goal that we laud but clearly do not internalize...
...pitchers in today's game, who would be the toughest for you to face? Johan Santana [of the New York Mets] would be one of them. He's phenomenal. He reminds me so much of what Doc Gooden once was. You give him runs early enough, he's going to win that ballgame. Doc Gooden was the same way. You give him three runs early, you can close the door...
...turn to buy their first new cars, they'll be looking at the brands they know best, just as their father did a generation ago. Their old man wishes, in his heart, that they could buy a Pontiac. But his brain, and his wallet, dictate otherwise. Pontiac didn't give a damn when it lost me as a buyer 30 years ago, but I find myself profoundly saddened by its passing. Turns out that I may have cared more than they...
...techniques in the manual give interrogators adequate ammunition in the war on terrorism? The military stands firmly by its document. In a May 2007 letter to troops in Iraq, General David Petraeus wrote, "Our experience in applying the interrogation standards laid out in the Army Field Manual ... published last year shows that the techniques in the manual work effectively and humanely in eliciting information from detainees...