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...Sciences (FAS) has always been notoriously hushed about what goes on behind closed doors at their monthly sessions in University Hall. After last Tuesday’s debacle of a meeting, we’re starting to understand why. The Faculty chose to spend two hours engaged in a meaningless debate over parliamentary minutiae and the free speech resolution of anthropology professor J. Lorand Matory ’82, leaving no time to act on any of the several measures pertaining to the actual governance of the College. In light of important and time-sensitive proposals like a graduate program...
...long-lasting compact fluorescent light bulbs in your house. But the growth in Doha and Dalian ate all your energy savings for breakfast.” Tom! I imagine him waking up, staring at his hands, and saying, “My God, it’s all meaningless!” before writing this one. (4) The Onion (?!) What the hell? Thomas wrote two columns this year that copied whole paragraphs straight from The Onion. Dec. 2: “[A]s I slipped away for some pre-Christmas golf, I found myself thinking about a wickedly funny story...
...compromise on the fundamental issue. The British would give Rhodesia its freedom only on condition that the nation's 4,000,000 blacks be guaranteed control of the government within the foreseeable future. To most of the 220,000 whites, however, that would be suicide. They offered only two meaningless gestures: allowing more blacks to vote for the 15 African seats in parliament, and the creation of an almost powerless senate ... [The whites] believe that the first African government would murder them in their beds ... 'There will be no black rule in my lifetime,' promises Prime Minister Ian Smith." Read...
...political observers said that without unified support from the opposition, a boycott by Sharif's party would have been meaningless. On Sunday, Sharif acceded to that reality. He said that he has decided to fight the system from within: "We came to the realization that we must participate in the elections to block Mr. Musharraf's unconstitutional actions...
...original, elegantly crafted, and inspiring investigation of the distinctly human obsession with all things musical.“What an odd thing it is,” Sacks writes, “to see an entire species—billions of people—playing with, listening to, meaningless tonal patterns, occupied and preoccupied for much of their time by what they call ‘music.’” Sacks tries to get to the root of this peculiarity by bringing us into the eccentric, sometimes tragic, and sometimes moving world that he first introduced...