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...question, before you whip out your credit card or start reciting your personal list of affirmations, is, What makes you think unsullied optimism is such a good idea? Americans have long prided themselves on being positive and optimistic - traits that reached a manic zenith in the early years of this millennium. Iraq would be a cakewalk! The Dow would reach 36,000! Housing prices could never decline! Optimism was not only patriotic but was also a Christian virtue, or so we learned from the proliferating preachers of the "prosperity gospel," whose God wants to "prosper" you. In 2006, the runaway...
House intramural fanatics may have noticed that over the past month Mather has been conspicuously absent from the competition list. Well, you weren't mistaken...
After Mather's IM teams missed a number of games this season, chaos erupted over the ever entertaining Mather-open list last week...
...company of so many of the transformative figures who have been honored by this prize" but that he would travel to Oslo in December to accept it as "a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century." He then rattled off a laundry list of problems. Beyond nuclear weapons and climate change, he said he hoped the prize would serve as a catalyst to grapple with the Middle East, violence, poverty, disease and racism. "Some of the work confronting us will not be completed during my presidency," he said. "Some, like the elimination of nuclear...
...come as a shock to you? It did come as a bit of a surprise. What surprised me most, however, was the degree to which getting too excited by the threat of communist subversion was not usually done by MI5 but rather by government. Labour leadership sent MI5 a list of names of 16 Labour MPs who they thought were more communist than Labour. MI5 refused to get involved because it saw this as party politics. However, the man at the top of that list [Will Owen] we now know had been a Czech agent for years...