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This caveat aside, we remain enthusiastic about Professor Wilson's decision to come to the Kennedy School and join the "critical mass" of scholars at Harvard. In a university that is already flooded with intellectual luminaries, the Afro-American studies department may be the jewel in Harvard's academic crown...
...Harvard's record of architectural trusteeship is scandalous: the Carey Cage and the Old Fogg, to name the most distinguished examples, have been thoughtlessly destroyed in the wake of shortsighted optimism. Seize this opportunity to preserve a jewel of architecture and to close a sad chapter in Harvard's history...
...have been Gingrich's finest moment, the Speaker faces the prospect of seeing many of his legislative dreams collapse. Term limits, legal reform and a tougher crime bill are dead; tax cuts and welfare reform are in danger. Now many Republicans worry that the Contract with America's crown jewel, a balanced budget by the year 2002, could be put off until after the election...
...charges that GOPAC violated federal election law by attempting to influence federal campaigns without registering as a federal PAC and disclosing its finances." The allegations come at a particularly bad time for the Speaker, says Novak: "He's in the midst of trying to salvage the crown jewel of his Contract with America, the promise of a balanced budget in seven years, and it's increasingly possible that he'll fail. Congress and the White House aren't nearing agreement, and the public is blaming Gingrich and the Congressional Republicans. For Clinton, it wouldn't be so bad for talks...
...surprising that this evidence of our period's effeteness is also pervasive in the world of art, since art and politics are both but facets on the same cultural jewel. 1990s-style art finds its most visible example in the overexposed Pulp Fiction. This highly successful film is appropriate here not just because of its thematic moral nihilism, but even more importantly for its subtle display of the bankruptcy of our era. It is simply this: Pulp Fiction, entertaining as it is, contains very little that is actually new. In fact, one of the most important reasons that the movie...