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Today, in the upper-class dining halls, most students don't indulge in intellectual debates about philosophy, classics or even current political situations. But I cannot say that I always mourn this change. Nowadays, dinner brings with it a certain sense of comfort, filled instead with down-to-earth conversations about classes and television shows. Does this mean that the mythical intellectual Harvard is dead...
What happened in Rancho Santa Fe, California, was by no means a tragedy. Thirty-nine people did what they felt was necessary to achieve eternal happiness. They died of their own free will. Who are we to question their motives? We should not mourn their death. They fulfilled their purpose in life and died content. Who could ask for more? ALEX STEWART Summerville, South Carolina...
...could turn off the television completely. But television, like it or not, has become integrated into our society. We turn to the tube primarily for entertainment, but that entertainment becomes a part of our culture as well. Television has become the instrument that unites our country. Some people mourn the slow loss of regional accents due to the bland accent of most television personae...
...only with a minimum of nostalgic regret that I mourn the enchanted outer space of my childhood. Comets will always be a white blobs to me, and I no longer idolize astronauts. I have since learned that the exalted Hayden Planetarium's Pink-Floyd-and-astronomy extravaganzas provided psychedelic entertainment for drug users citywide. I find most of our nation's space program to be a waste of time and money. The notion of launching tomato seeds into space is morally repugnant when there are those who die of starvation on a daily basis. Housing men and women in space...
Last week, Washington football team owner Jack Kent Cooke died. At 85 years old, he had been owner for over 20 years and, recently, after years of failed attempts, struck a deal to build a new stadium in Prince George's County, Maryland. Now fans, players and newscasters mourn his death. But as sad as it is when anyone dies, I hope that in some way his death will lead to another passing: the death of the name "Redskins...