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...democracy. But heaven protect him from Gibbs and the rest of the over-the-top hallelujah chorus. America's vote will "save it"? I must have missed news of its approaching death. Obama is a "radical departure" from presidents who "were born into power or bred to it"? I guess TIME doesn't remember where Bill Clinton, or Ronald Reagan, or Abraham Lincoln came from. And now Obama's a "prince"? Maybe you should tone it down. Let Obama do his job, and you do yours. You know, report the news - not your own ecstasy. David Shaffer, Delmar, New York...
That means the burden of surprise rests solely on Rose's voice. Perhaps that's how he wanted it, but even his quaver isn't good enough to carry a 71-min. album that was 17 years in the making. "If I thought that I was crazy/ Well I guess I'd have more fun," Rose sings in "The Catcher in the Rye," and he may be on to something. Chinese Democracy is as obsessive as you'd expect, but it's not nearly crazy enough...
...doctorate program. He became an assistant professor in fall 2005.The History department hired Trygve Van Regenmorter Throntveit ’01 as a lecturer after most of his dissertation committee retired or decided to take time off. “I pitched a few classes to them, and I guess they took the bait,” he says. Apart from a year taken off before his PhD—which he completed at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences—Throntveit has been at Harvard for 11 out of the past 12 years.For Timothy P. McCarthy...
...suppressed these concerns and entered practice mode, watching syndicated episodes of the game show with my teammates nightly for two weeks. Although I’d watched the show before, I’d never realized it was basically a contest in mediocrity—teams compete to guess the most frequent responses to inane questions previously posed to 100 average Americans. For example, if asked “What’s a cure for the hiccups,” teams try to respond not with the most accurate or effective answer, but the one most common answer, which...
...Penn 30. BREAKING THE DROUGHT Going into Saturday’s contest, Harvard was an abysmal 1-12 in its last 13 visits to Penn’s Franklin Field, dating back to 1982. “I’ve been here for 15 years, so I guess I prefer to see the glass as half full,” Murphy said, pointing out that that stretch exceeds his tenure as head coach. “We’ve won two out of our last three years down here. That’s all I care about...