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...reshape—the University’s administration in his first half-decade than his recent predecessors have.There are two general schools of thought regarding the high number of recent vacancies at the helm of Harvard’s faculties.“The knee-jerk answer is that this adds to [Summers’] power because it gives him a greater hand in the running of Harvard’s schools,” said Richard Bradley, author of the book “Harvard Rules,” a critical assessment of Summers’ tenure...
...easy for people to get riled up. And when someone insults something that they are either self-conscious, self-righteous or insecure about, the knee-jerk reaction is to become indignant. Down with t-shirts that make fun of my race! Shame on them for using humor I do not find funny! But what it comes down to, upon closer inspection, or even any kind of rational thought, is that one cannot find any offensive intent on the part of Spencer’s. They may be making shirts that just aren’t funny, and are clearly...
...members against each other in front of a crowd of 15,000. Fans sing, cheer their favorite bands, and catch up with friends and neighbors while picnicking on pelau (a rice and peas mixture), macaroni pie, souse (a spicy soup made from either pigs' or chickens' feet), jerk chicken and plenty of local beer and rum drinks...
...members against each other in front of a crowd of 15,000. Fans sing, cheer their favorite bands, and catch up with friends and neighbors while picnicking on pelau (a rice and peas mixture), macaroni pie, souse (a spicy soup made from either pigs' or chickens' feet), jerk chicken and plenty of local beer and rum drinks. The musicians - who all play their instruments by ear - have eight minutes to impress the eight judges seated in the main Grand Stand. The "engine room," or rhythm section of each steel band, includes at least one conventional drum kit, tumba drums, maracas...
...broad benefit of many outside its borders. The Case for Goliath is one of those works that invites the reader to look at the familiar in a new way; it would be nice, if optimistic, to think that it will be read carefully by those for whom knee-jerk anti-Americanism is a substitute for thought. For much of the post-1945 world, Mandelbaum argues, the U.S. has done what governments do. It has provided a degree of security to others, by damping down the prospect of global war and by leading the struggle against the proliferation of nuclear weapons...