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Speculation titillates the mind but usually ends by subtly demeaning the human place in the cosmic scheme. The Earth that the ancients took to be the center of the drama becomes ever more marginal, a receding speck. Astronomers' searches tend to assume that the aliens would be superior to earthlings...
This missive is not, however, aimed at them. It would be wrong to direct concern about the increasingly precarious status of media and the increasingly marginal student interest in current affairs toward those who publish Harvard's daily, weeklies, journals, gazettes and magazines. For at least these students recognize on...
Cases don't come any gentler than hers. She is a woman of solid middle-class background. If anything, she has been more mysteriously called to a life caring for the marginal than Poncelet has been to his life of darkness. All we really know about her is that her...
LEADERS MAKE THINGS POSSIBLE. EXCEPTIONAL LEADERS make them inevitable. Newt Gingrich belongs in the category of the exceptional. All year--ruthlessly, brilliantly, obnoxiously--he worked at hammering together inevitabilities: a balanced federal budget, for one. Not so long ago, the idea of a balanced budget was a marginal, we'll...
Nevertheless, the Speaker of the House has neither done much nor said much to challenge his rich core constituency to shoulder more of the burden in curing poverty. His friend and sometime guru Arianna Huffington regularly urges her Republican friends to tithe 10% of their income to the poor. She...