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...Harvard is the temple of the case method, the Gothic towers at the University of Chicago form the shrine of pure theory. "The case-study method is only a concoction that looks realistic," scoffs Eugene Fama, who teaches a notoriously tough lecture course in finance. "It's like an electronic hockey game that can never produce real hockey players." Chicago's first-year core courses cover statistics, managerial accounting, microeconomics and macroeconomics. The second-year electives put the theories to work: applied econometrics, financial instruments, application of finance theory. Though the emphasis on theory is heavy, Chicago officials...
Labels generally lack subtlety. A button that says RIGHT TO LIFE or RIGHT TO CHOOSE leaves little space for reservations. Yet some labels that were pejoratives have come in time to be worn proudly by the accused. Originally, Tory meant an Irish thief; gothic, now used to describe great cathedrals, was once a dismissing word for something wild and crude. In the great political transformation that has taken place since Roosevelt's day, politicians who once flaunted their liberalism have come to prefer softer labels such as progressive, moderate, pragmatic-or have sought to have it both ways...
...cold wind swept over the thick dark grass outside, whistled through the moonlit Gothic stonework, the parapets, battlements, and pinnacles intricately crowning the buildings with medieval bulk and solemnity...
...voice of the organ echoes down the mighty Gothic nave as the congregation rises to sing the Doxology...
...their current popularity and lubricity, novel-romances are old, old stories. They began flooding the market in England during the last decades of the 18th century; they were part of the tide that engulfed the certainties of the Enlightenment. Unlike the newly invented gothic tale, which stressed the pleasures of terror, the sentimental romances emphasized the happy sensation of a good cry. They also quickly debased the emerging philosophical notion that feelings were the most reliable guide to truth. If so, reasoned the romancers, then the person with the most flamboyantly acute sensitivities must be better than less hysterical mortals...