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...glory days are fast fading into history, but they’re still inspiring. Students saved thousands of lives in Vietnam by agitating for peace. The blood spilled at Kent State, the thousands of lungs that burned from the murky stench of tear gas, the files the FBI still keeps about our fathers—our parents’ generation we aren’t—but we profane their legacy with worldly concerns. Fretting about the economy at the expense of abortion rights, immigration, war, personal liberties and education is dereliction of duty...
...history of baseball has been to their team. Babe Ruth always had loads of talent to rely on. Hank Aaron had Eddie Matthews. Pete Rose had Bench, Perez, Foster, etc. But Bonds has got diddley squat. He’s doing it all himself. Where’s Jeff Kent now? I thought so—without Bonds, he’s merely a good player...
Hornstine embodies the Harvard student Harvard students resent most, the assumptions that we struggle to debunk with Clark Kent humility back in our hometowns. She was a consummate do-gooder, a ready-made all-star at the Freshman Activities Fair who won tens of thousands of dollars in scholarships for her service. But just as the envious imagine when they see an Olympian resume like hers, she also took credit for the work of mortals. According to some of the people in charities she supported, they often spoke with her father, as reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer...
...suit, led by Boston College law professor Kent Greenfield, comes almost a year after prominent HLS professors called on Harvard to file suit against the government for virtually forcing the school to violate its own anti-discrimination policies...
...iron. The many limbless trees have more presence than the two small humans who scuttle across the canvas. Its wide angle and transformation of horror into almost-beauty conveys emotional impact in a way no photograph can. In 1921 Nash was diagnosed with "war strain" and retreated to the Kent coast, near bleak Romney Marsh. He took refuge in geometry, applying a ruler to nature, and seeking out the regularity of fences, planks, horizons. The Shore (1923) shows the seawall at Dymchurch, which holds the water - in his imagination "cold and cruel" - back from the marsh. A stark composition...