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...efficiency. Josefina’s response was, with characteristic bohemian spiritidness, “Ha! If I have $1 after expenses, I say to myself: ‘I am making money.’”Over the years, the Café evolved into a freewheeling locus for intellectuals and travelers. Sometimes, however, the city was out of step with it. Then, as now, Cambridge had a law declaring it illegal to serve alcohol on sidewalk tables. “You could not serve liquor on the sidewalk? What difference does it make if you get drunk inside...
Pity the poorbody. Since philosopher Ren Descartes uncoupled it from the mind in the 17th century, it has been second banana. Storytellers have fetishized the mind and exalted it as the locus of character and the self. The body has been along mainly for the ride ever since, the mind's sherpa...
Kirby wrote in an e-mail last night that he has several priorities as director of the Fairbank Center, including “to work with faculty to keep (or where need be, make) Harvard pre-eminent in the study of China and as the key locus in this country for scholarly inquiry on China...
...understands the pitfalls of stage-acting bite so harshly at others’ hiccups?“I don’t think any [critic] sets out to be vicious. You try to be just, and you try to be entertaining, and where those two things meet is the locus of the review. And that can be hurtful to the person who is the butt of the joke, so to speak. But it can’t be helped, because you want to be both just and entertaining.”Simon’s justice is no longer...
...education. There can be no question that maintaining free speech in the academy is essential to promoting the open discourse that is fundamental to American society. But in this case, the UC is not violating anyone’s rights. In order for a university to function as a locus of higher learning, it must be able to set minimal standards for its students’ academic preparation. Since the opportunity to attend a UC is not a right but conditional upon an applicant’s willingness to meet these objective standards, claims of discrimination suggest either that...