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...With The Lay of the Land (Knopf; 485 pages), Bascombe is 55 and still a Realtor in a booming market, but a brittle, somewhat sour note has crept into his thinking. It's Thanksgiving weekend of 2000. The presidential-election fiasco is under way in Florida. By now his second wife has left him too. His two surviving children are grown up in ways he can't entirely take pleasure in, especially his strange and angry son Paul (who wears a mullet and writes greeting-card verse). Then there's the cancer. Bascombe has just had his prostate seeded with...
...weeks ago, I watched Obama give a speech about alternative energy to an audience gathered by MoveOn.org at Georgetown University. It was supposed to be a big deal, one of three speeches MoveOn had scheduled to lay out its 2008 issues agenda, a chance for the best-known group of activist Democrats to play footsie with the party's most charismatic speaker, and vice versa. But it was a disappointment, the closest I had seen Obama come to seeming a standard-issue pol, one who declares a crisis and answers with Band-Aids. In this case, he produced...
It’s unreasonable to lay the blame for the dead air on the majority of undergraduates. Given that the curricular review has droned on for as long as most of us have been enrolled here, the lack of interest is understandable. But neither the duration of the review nor undergraduate apathy can excuse the inactivity of this campus’ leaders, who have made practically no effort to make the proposed reforms relevant for most Harvard students...
...laying on the grass really happy, it was just an amazing feeling,” Ho said. “I just lay there until three of my linemen picked me up and started celebrating. It was just a tremendous experience...
...fails to mention that the U.S. Supreme Court forced Harvard’s hand when it upheld the Solomon Amendment last December. (The alternative, of course, would be to forgo hundreds of millions of dollars of federal research funds, which would force Harvard to lay off legions of workers whom the writers of the Guide seek to protect.) And it portrays former University President Lawrence H. Summers as an agent of evil for his work at the World Bank that “[created] all sorts of elitisms,” ignoring that he was chiefly responsible for the Harvard...