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Yesterday, I chastised myself for being a blockhead. I haven't read the strip often enough in recent years, and it made me sad when I realized I had been neglecting what used to be an important part of my day. I haven't had time for the Peanuts gang since coming to college. With the meaty issues we weigh every day in section, a Harvard student can't possibly expect to have time for such a simple pleasure...
...Gautam: David, I let you talk. Return the favor... and it is possible that one of the rules of the administration is to give a longer term perspective of people who have spent more time here and sometimes, inevitably, those things conflict with what the students want because we haven't seen as much as they have. At the least I think we owe them some degree of respect for the attainments that they have to become Harvard administrators. It's not easy, guys...
Reading Gnter Grass's recent Nobel Lecture I was struck by two things: it's rather disjointed--like it was written in a hurry--and it's wrong in a predictable way. The triteness of it took me by surprise. I haven't read any of Grass's books, not even The Tin Drum (heck, I haven't even seen the movie), but it was my understanding that he was one of the best living writers and that his Nobel Prize for literature was long overdue. Maybe so, but his Nobel Lecture strikes me as the sort of thing that...
...know they haven't shot the ball all that well this year from outside," said Long. "We need to watch [the guards], but if we focus too much on them, they'll just feed the ball inside...
Harvard Square, known year-round as a shoppers' haven, becomes even more commercial during the holiday season, when the streets are packed with would-be buyers...