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...other leaders that would "inform the nation about modern culture and its impact on youth." Senate majority leader Trent Lott seemed intent on keeping his earlier vow that gun control legislation would never pass on his watch. He called the renewed push for gun control a typical "knee-jerk reaction" to the shootings and staved off for at least two weeks an effort to have a vote, in the hope that emotions will cool. The House, heavily mortgaged to the gun lobby, has scheduled no bills. House Republican whip Tom DeLay, whose office was the site of the murder...
This advanced technique is reserved for those who carry their keycards around their necks. Heavily influenced by Eastern philosophy, this no-hands approach will be the envy of all once perfected. Dangle your card at the bottom of the reader until it catches. with a quick jerk of the neck, whip the card up and out of the slot. When executed correctly, you may feel a sharp pain in the small of the back--have no fear, this will be quickly soothed by the glowing accolades from you colleagues...
Admittedly, this column only adds to the stream of post-Littleton opinion pieces, but my purpose here isn't to try to explain the events but rather to encourage us to examine the instincts that may draw us to these pundits. The sort of knee-jerk analysis practiced in the past two weeks simultaneously gratifies and disturbs many of us. On the one hand, many of us have a powerful instinct to both seek and supply grand, sweeping and satisfying answers in the wake of tragedy. Immediately following a dramatic national or local event, at the time of greatest emotional...
Some years back, students demanded improvements to the poorly planned Katherine Bogdanovich Loker Commons. The administration's knee-jerk hiring of a consultant produced radical reform, including the installation of a TV room. Yet Loker's rep has not considerably improved; many still clamor for a student center. The TV room reveals one major hurdle to any proposed student center: Harvard social ineptitude...
Krauthammer's ill-considered essay belies his usual knee-jerk hostility toward everything Clinton does. Krauthammer claims that the President meant for his "doctrine" to be "universal," and then the author unwittingly cites cases of U.S. nonintervention that disprove this claim. In fact, Clinton has never said the U.S. seeks to stop all humanitarian abuses in the world. And just because a goal is not fully obtainable doesn't mean it is not worth pursuing. Clinton's policy in the Balkans may be too reactive, but it would indeed be immoral not to stop Milosevic's rapes and murders...