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...might be thinking that I’m being overly optimistic or na??ve, and you might be right. I have no idea whether or not the interracial dating experiment will produce the same results once I leave the incubator of Harvard’s campus. But if an interracial relationship means a challenging relationship, I say, show me a relationship that isn’t challenging. Show me a relationship that doesn’t require an immense amount of compromise. Show me a relationship, interracial or otherwise, that does not require serious time spent trying to decipher...
Mehlman, the Harvard alum, said that while Hanfstaengl was “no portrait in moral courage,” Professor Norwood “may have been na??ve to be that shocked, given the sense that Jews had been systematically excluded from Harvard in the 1930s...
...killed the Democratic Congress. The lesson for today’s Democrats is clear: Unrelenting, unapologetic opposition is the only effective means of confronting, and ultimately defeating, the three-branch, fifty-state, multimedia right-wing behemoth that is America’s new governing party. And to the dangerously na??ve among us—those who counsel “working with the president,” and hoist Tom Daschle’s political corpse as evidence of the perils of “obstructionism”—a dose of history seems in order...
Ordinarily, of course, I would agree with those whom I’ve just called na??ve. Ordinarily, I’m all for bipartisan cooperation and bridging differences. But this is no ordinary president. Anyone who falls short of 100 percent support for Bush is labeled “obstructionist,” brutally attacked as anti-God and anti-security, and targeted not just for defeat but for personal destruction. Short of switching parties, or making out with the president Joe Lieberman-style, “obstructionist” is something any Democratic leader would have been...
...with sports), an elite institution in Pennsylvania, for four very different undergraduates and a sprinkling of adults for unsubtle contrast. As with most of Wolfe’s novels there is a host of characters, but four comprise the novel’s main focus: Charlotte Simmons, the na??ve and beautiful titular protagonist; Hoyt Thorpe, the self-obsessed fratboy; “Jojo” Johanssen, the gargantuan whitey baller; and Adam Gellin, Nerd...