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...April again, which means Jan and I have just returned to Mill Valley from another buying trek through the Annapurna, an ordeal that has left us spent but elated. As always, you, our valued catalog customers, were never far from our thoughts--especially the evening we lingered over jasmine tea with a Mahayana Buddhist monk at the Four Winds Monastery, perched precariously above a roaring tributary of the Ganges. As we sipped to the rhythmic whirl of prayer wheels, I in my all-cotton, breathable Sahib Gear[TM] Punting Pants, Jan in her wind-resistant Amelia Earhart Aviator...
Somewhere in the course of Rudenstine's report (about p. 45) the idea of diversity as inherited from the past is suddenly transformed into the new, multicultural idea of representation. The liberal heroes he quotes in support of diversity--John Milton and John Stuart Mill--had no thought that diversity might require proportional representation of ethnic groups. Certainly not! For them true diversity was above all diversity of opinion, and that was the product of a few people who stand on their own feet, who do not bow to public opinion, or look to role models, or need the support...
...conservatives on the faculty at Harvard might serve as an example of the sort of diversity that Milton and Mill had in mind. They are a mere sprinkling in the dull mass of liberals, in ridiculous disproportion to their number in the general population. True diversity comes from those who challenge the liberal orthodoxy to which Rudenstine gives voice. Harvard has no program to recruit them...
...truth is just the opposite. It is easy to indulge "other significant values" than excellence and to pretend that nothing has happened and that our patron saint John Stuart Mill would smile on us. What is hard is to sustain excellence against the temptation of other values that appear to be more significant...
...leaves, leaps into view. He chuckles and grins as he dashes and twirls about the stage. The audience gasps with delight at the magical picture, captivated by the fairy-tale scene unfurling through pirouettes and arabesques before their very eyes. But this is not your everyday, run-of-the-mill Brothers Grimm tale winning the hearts of people all over the city. This week, the Boston Ballet is weaving Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" into the stuff that dreams are made...