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This mercenary attitude toward matrimony may highlight the uglier aspects of human relationships. But we could perhaps take it as good news, especially for the many Harvard undergraduates aspiring to positions of power in the public sphere. Desperate for a mate? With political power and prestige alone, one will almost certainly find a marriage that withstands the test of time, however unhappily. We can only hope, though, that in the name of love, people will try a little harder...
...Is” is a positive statement of fact. “Ought” is a normative statement and carries much more baggage with it. For example, when considering human evolution, chimpanzees are the closest common ancestor to humans. Male chimps when trying to mate often turn violent. Field studies have observed male chimps forcing copulation with female chimps, coercing them with threats of violence, and in extreme cases killing infants to gain access to females. This is natural in chimps, and arguably aspects of this behavior are natural in human males. Natural in that in the behavior does...
...they want. Philip Pullman's brief, exquisite novel ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE NORTH (Knopf; 104 pages) is fan service at its best. North is set in the same quasi-Victorian alternative universe as Pullman's Golden Compass, where every human is accompanied by a talking-animal soul mate called a daemon. It's a prequel, the story of how a young and not-yet-grizzled Lee Scoresby, gunslinging aeronaut extraordinaire, and his rabbit daemon, Hester, first met up with armored polar bear Iorek Byrnison. Nobody writes dialogue for gunslingers like a Brit: "Damn, Hester," Scoresby says...
...recently endorsed Obama despite having worked as secretary of energy under former President Clinton, called the senator from Illinois a “symbol of America’s diversity.” When Yepsen asked what he would say if Obama asked him to be his running mate, Richardson responded, “If it doesn’t work out that’s fine, but I’m ready to do everything I can to get him elected.” On the topic of the presidential race, Richardson also talked about eliminating superdelegates altogether, financing...
...pass on the first ballot at the Denver convention, which would deny the 2,025 votes necessary to Obama or Clinton. What if they then approached Gore and asked him to be the nominee, for the good of the party-and suggested that he take Obama as his running mate? Of course, Obama would have to be a party to the deal and bring his 1,900 or so delegates along...