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...course, not blind to the moral force of humanistic inquiry, a point that Martha Nussbaum, among others, has made quite well. But the current model of university education seems particularly divorced from human action; its practical dimension seems to have been outsourced to extracurricular groups on campus. Yet mere intellectualism cannot in any way be said to replace the satisfaction of religious instruction...
Most of Harvard is a theme park built for professors and scholars. Students are mere trespassers. But there are some functioning rides, and the freshman week textual discussion is one of them. My discussion group provoked genuine debate; it felt important and gave value to the idea of a liberal arts education. It was among the best I’ve ever had at Harvard. This indicates the quality of that discussion, but it also tells you something of what ails Harvard today...
...finest offerings from Bordeaux. On the second floor of the shop, against the wall in a big glass display case, sit 40 of the great wines from the region, including a 1985 Château Margaux[an error occurred while processing this directive] that's on sale for a mere $1,487.50. Asked if wine is now certifiably hot in China, Mirey, the former sommelier at Petrus, a splashy French restaurant in Hong Kong's Island Shangri-La hotel, grins and says, "Oh yeah." Well, maybe - or maybe not. Despite a proliferation of trendy wine bars and stores in Shanghai...
...shuttle declined to stop to accommodate the screaming young men, one particularly perceptive punch exclaimed, “Man, Harvard hates final clubs!” How droll. Lamont Library’s soporific effect hits the café: Two undergrads were passed out by 5:11 p.m., a mere hour after its grand opening. Osmosis is the new studying. A veteran UC rep with rumored presidential aspirations attends the first UC meeting wasted after the Owl punch. A sophomore student allegedly e-mailed a professor in search of a good grade—in exchange for fellatio. Ad boarding...
When you've been in Iraq as long as I have - over three and a half years - the tragedies that beset this country can either become mere statistics, or they can become personal. I've only been back in Baghdad six hours, and already the week's most horrific story - the sectarian carnage that has killed nearly 100 people in the town of Balad - has taken on a personal dimension...