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...moralism. "BHL has taken up all the great causes of our time," Cohen writes. "BHL is a bit to literature what Mondavi is to wine." Asked to respond to Cohen's book, Lévy quotes Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran ("I've always asked myself how it is the mere risk of having a biographer doesn't dissuade us from having a life"), then says he's content to let people decide for themselves. He also argues that modern French thinkers aren't so different from past generations. "The great intellectuals of the '50s and '60s, the structuralists, kept...
Think, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are), think, all of you: Imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless he is of the Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2(NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read...
...threshold beyond which it is unreasonable to run shuttles and instead encourage students to call the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for a ride. But we have, in the past, noted several objections to leaving students to be driven home in squad cars, and so we believe that a mere one rider per hour justifies the cost of continued shuttle service. Futhermore, the funds for the extended hours come from Gross’s discretionary fund, so the continuation of the late-night shuttles do not come at the expense of any other crucial student service...
...slogan it used for two decades in favor of the more narcissistic "An Army of One" motto it embraced eight months before 9/11, which played off the individuality and independence of today's young men and women and tried to convince them that soldiers are more than mere cogs in a dehumanizing military machine. Today the Army sponsors NASCAR racing cars, football games, rodeo riders and a popular Internet video game called America's Army. But just how much those teenage touchstones do for military recruiting is an open question. A federal study found that although the military doubled...
Instead, Falluja, an ancient trading post straddling the winding Euphrates and the blighted Syrian Desert, might no longer merit placement on a political map. Once a city of 250,000, Falluja today exists as a black stain from the air—or, perhaps to some, a mere drop of oil. Flattened and charred, its thousands of buildings and homes wasted from the sky and from the ground, its districts and quarters heaped together like the piles of dead bodies that welcome visitors to its borders, proudly attest to America’s vision for Iraq...