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...something I had picked up at Harvard, a place where the primary fear is of failing—at anything, ever. The corollary of the anxiety about failure is a willingness to do almost anything to make an endeavor seem successful. No matter if acknowledging our minor mistakes, like my choosing the wrong roommate, could dramatically increase our happiness...
...sale of their sperm, eggs and blood. Both kidney and egg donation are invasive procedures that come with associated risks. The decision whether or not to sell an organ would also not be made in a vacuum and one would expect medical professionals to fully present the associated (albeit minor) risks of kidney donation before surgery...
...mechanism to incentivize individuals to host parties seem like good places to start.)These changes are just a few of the many small, constructive actions the administration could take that would benefit students. Extending library hours and outsourcing email (to combat the many problems posed by Webmail) may seem minor, but they have the potential to make significant impacts on the day-to-day life of undergraduates. Outside of University Hall, professors and teaching fellows (TFs) also have certain obligations they must meet in order to foster symbiotic relationships between teachers and students. Changes like promptly posting syllabi, returning final...
...winner of a whole flock of minor awards and a leading Oscar candidate, The Bridge on the River Kwai has acquired an undeserved reputation for “significance.” The only way it could “mean” anything very important would be as a comment on various attitudes toward war or toward fine points of law and principle. But since the spokesman for one attitude is unspeakably stupid if not downright insane, the “issue” which the film discusses is no issue at all. We are expected to feel...
...With a few notable exceptions, such as The Boston Globe and the McNeil-Lehrer news show, only minor attention was given to the implications of the Brooks case itself. Had more people bothered to do so, it would have been clear exactly why the renewed nationwide use of the death penalty should disturb anyone with even a passing interest of justice morality, or the value of human life...