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...honor of Arts First, University President Lawrence H. Summers has called arts achievements “enormously important [and] as serious and as significant as achievements that we strive for in philosophy or in science or in any other field.” If Summers is serious, he ought to prove it by pushing for a greater arts emphasis in the curriculum...
Because Harvard and Yale have chosen to honor tradition and not compete at IRAs for so many years, some cynics might accuse them of hiding behind the H-Y Regatta. In general, however, few believe that the two programs need to win a National Championship to prove their dominance...
...controversial nomination and recognition of the film’s director, Roman Polanski, gave me pause. As I read across the box, I remembered the way I felt on Oscar night: it’s too bad that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences chose to honor such a unscrupulous and immoral...
...because it seems avant-garde to hail a dubious, unrepentant figure. He didn’t show at the awards—he hasn’t even been to Canada since fleeing indictment from fear of extradition—but the Academy and any actors who cheered his honor should be ashamed. France, his land of refuge, can keep...
...Confederacy’s Jefferson Davis. Like Bush, Davis “had dreams of building an empire at gunpoint,” and, “as with Davis, obtaining Bush’s defeat is an urgent matter of national security—and national honor.” In denouncing the president’s foreign policy as imperialistic, Meyerson echoes what has become a common talking point in radical circles...