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...James Madison, arguing in favor of the Constitution, said "the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." Well, that is robust rhetoric, but it is not quite true. It so happens that every tyrant has possessed those three powers and that every person who has possessed them has ruled as a tyrant. That, however, is mere coincidence...
...three black, female, tenured professors in the Faculty currently, if all of those Harvard offered tenure to accepted: namely, Gina C. Dent, now teaching in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia, and Nellie Y. McKay, who teaches African-American Literature at the University of Wisconsin at Madison...
...smaller, more concentrated doses, go back to the supporting roles. The Wayne's Worlds were good, the first one quite so. But here's one you may have passed over: Billy Madison (1995). Easily the quirkiest of the Idiot Pack films, (by that I mean the late-model SNL alums) this one's a winner. And Farley, ah, Farley, driving the bus, baring his belly, just yelling . . . That guy was FUNNY...
...majoritarian forces that shape this culture as being hostile toward them is certainly interesting, but not necessarily justified, especially considering how popular culture is manufactured. I might as well complain as a Jew that the Christmas shopping season is perpetuated by the prejudice, ignorance and intolerance of Madison Avenue and San Francisco advertising executives...
...judge panel, which unanimously selected the award winner, included Peter A. Diamond, professor of economics at MIT; Martin J. Gruber, chair of the Finance Department at New York University; James C. Hickman, dean of the Business School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Olivia S. Mitchell, professor of insurance and risk management at the Wharton School; Stephen A. Ross, professor of economics and finance at the Yale University School of Management, and John B. Shoven, dean of humanities and sciences at Stanford University...