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...transformation into the Institute for Advanced Study was supposed to make official what had been the unspoken status quo since the integration of the two colleges; Harvard was responsible for male and female students. The passing of the torch, as it were, was also supposed to goad Harvard to take more responsibility for the safety, education and well being of women undergraduates. As the Dean of the Institute, Drew Gilpin Faust, said recently, “By saying I’m not dealing with final clubs, I’m not dealing with date rape, it means Harry Lewis?...
...says the company doesn't need a big central office. "As long as we have people and computers," he says, "We can do it." Moreover, he denies doing anything illegal under Taiwanese law. He says he started Movie88 to goad Hollywood into using advanced technologies for movie distribution...
Sadly, even Hutchinson then reverted to what the Northern Irish call "what aboutery"--joining other politicians in circular arguments blaming the current outrage on some past transgression by the other side. The immediate goad here was said to be a summer full of attacks on local homes with stones and Molotov cocktails, which had been fueled by disputes over who could hang their flags from which lampposts, access for Protestants to shops in the Catholic zone, even which side of the street Catholic parents were walking on when school ended last June...
...even he then reverted to what the Northern Irish call "what aboutery" - joining other politicians in circular arguments blaming the current outrage on some past transgression by the other side. The immediate goad here was said to be a summer full of attacks on local homes with stones and Molotov cocktails, which in turn were fueled by a varied catalog of intolerance: disputes over who could hang their flags from which lampposts, access for Protestants to shops in the Catholic zone, even which side of the street Catholic parents were walking on when school ended last June. The tribal talk...
...each stage, the most persuasive advocates were movie idols and rock stars?salesmen, by example, of countless beguiling or corrosive fashions. If they could make cocaine and tattoos fashionable, perhaps they could goad the masses toward physical and spiritual enlightenment. Today yoga is practiced by so many stars with whom audiences are on a first-name basis?Madonna, Julia, Meg, Ricky, Michelle, Gwyneth, Sting?that it would be shorter work to list the actors who don't assume the asana. (James Gandolfini? We're just guessing...