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Then again, Kasich needs all the friends he can get these days. As Budget Committee chairman, he is charged with pulling off a trillion-dollar feat: wiping out the deficit by 2002, while lowering middle-class taxes by better than $100 billion. Moreover, it all has to be done without...
Leave it to Tom Hanks, recent Oscar winner, to share with us the real state of affairs with regard to the American "Artist as Citizen." He contended that he didn't "think responsibility went beyond voting via secret ballot." In other words, be reckless on stage and civic-minded every...
I take strong exception to Samuel J Rascoff's views on creative writing ("Trying to Teach Creativity," opinion, Feb. 17). "Education, creative writing style," he writes "frequently degenerates into literary self-help." What he fails to recognize about creative writing classes is that, far from being weekly episodes of narcissistic...
My question is a simple one. Snide liberals might call it simple-minded, but I think it's quite reasonable. Liberals want to teach our children many new and wonderful things. They want to teach them about different and distant cultures. They want to bring sex education into our classrooms...
But that notwithstanding, these courses do not belong at Harvard. The university is not constructed to meet all the high-minded ideals of society, only to further the pursuit of knowledge in the arts and sciences. Creative writing, I am afraid, does not meet that objective.