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People spend a lot of time at the Greenhouse Cafe because it is comfortable and convenient. Teaching fellows hold office hours there, people do their homework, students meet and talk. Sometimes they eat food. Sometimes they...
...would leave them satisfied that Harvard doesn't need finals clubs to anchor a social scene, confident that occasionally they had more fun than their high school friends who went to state universities, and, most of all, glad that they hadn't spent another weekend evening pretending to do homework while watching Saturday Night Live...
...staging a mock debate and none of us would be Ronald Reagan. Most of us wanted to be John Anderson, a few kids said they guessed they'd play Carter but absolutely everyone refused to be Bonzo. Finally the nerdy boy who always reminded our teacher to collect the homework reluctantly volunteered to play Reagan...
Furthermore, Mr. Choi makes the error of projecting his personal experience onto the entire Asian-American population. He argues that "heavy family involvement in education" is largely responsible for Asian-American academic success because they spend more time on their homework, on the average. He is again confusing issues, equating hours spent on homework with (Asian) family values and both as an indication of future "success." Again, his acceptance of a "traditional" interpretation of what it means to "deserve" entrance into an elite college. and what being a "good" student entails, underlies his confusion...
...forthright and comprehensive, and almost miraculously, he avoided making long lists in all but a few answers. On the stump Clinton can appear too smart; indeed, at times he is almost smart- alecky, like the kid who raises his hand to remind the teacher that he forgot to assign homework over Christmas. There was none of that in St. Louis, just an appropriate sense of urgency coupled with rhetorical certitude, the two combining to leave the impression that Clinton knows where he would take the nation if he gets the chance...