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...septuagenarian, said that Bok actually sets an example for his younger peers.“Just by his example, our president makes us all feel younger and more sprightly,” said Knowles. “He’s just the same warm friend with the formidable intellect that I first meet 33 years ago.”TAKING CARE OF BUSINESSWhen he took office last July, Bok said that his top priority was bringing the Faculty of Arts and Sciences curricular review to a close. Bok “is no foreigner to curricular revision...
...sometimes reflect on past relationships that seemed to feature scenes directly from those videos we used to watch in sex-ed, relationships in which dialogue consisted of, “I love you for your intellect and personality, but only if we have sex,” repeated one thousand times until break-up. Looking back, it’s hard to remember why such dialogue had to repeat itself so many times before the relationship ended. That is the result of inundation in a culture accepting of the objectification of women; indeed, a culture where abstinence has no voice...
...times have changed. Electors are no longer chosen for their intellect, but are mere messengers of the state’s electoral vote. And people are more informed today than our Founding Fathers could have ever imagined. Thanks to technology, nothing but disinterest prevents the average citizen from having just as much information as the elector...
...very rare to find both a real intellect and a man of the people. Bill Clinton was last one who had the common touch - no jokes - and was a real intellectual...
...message would have been stronger if the characters were more in dialogue with one another. Outside the realm of Barrett’s book, in the life of real American Muslims, West Virginia feminists can also be interested in national politics and California mystics in Islamic intellect. The American Muslim collective is diverse, as demonstrated by Barrett’s seven categories, but some elements of each category can surely be found in each American Muslim, and this reality does not come across. Still, Barrett’s reflections on the fissures that exist between American Muslims—important...