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...1950s, when men and women knew their place, when businessmen wore gray flannel suits, when white Anglo-Saxon Protestants dominated the membership of the power élite as if by right. Nowadays, we champion personal growth. We try to "keep it real." We celebrate diversity. We laugh at the narrow ties and clipped hair of postwar IBM and Ford Motor Co. whiz kids, and lionize instead the untidy entrepreneurialism of high-tech geeks like the young Bill Gates. We disdain order, and we cherish mess. Implicitly, we accept that the incivility and vulgarity which typify messy societies are a worthwhile...
...Harvard’s (17-2-1, 8-2-0 ECAC) narrow escape over Colgate (15-9-2, 6-5-0), Chu registered four assists, including one on Ruggiero’s game winner with 2:11 remaining in regulation...
...council must also take an even more active role in processing those opinions—passing resolutions on a range of curricular issues such as the core, undergraduate advising, the tutorial system, etc. Because administrators hope to narrow the review in the next several months, it is imperative that the council start soon. They should proactively piece together a vision for undergraduate education that makes student concerns a priority—instead of allowing Harvard to remain an impersonal research institution which has a tendency to err on the side of administrative convenience to the detriment of educational benefit...
...Hampshire, throwing nearly $850,000 worth of ads on the air and even handing out to undecided voters 50,000 copies of his warm and fuzzy Howard-and-Judy interview with Diane Sawyer. John Edwards' team was holding on tight, hoping to scoot past Wesley Clark and at least narrow the race a little more by the time it heads south. A new story line was taking hold: the election was all about electability; once again voters had flirted with the insurgent and then kicked him down the stairs, so they could snuggle up with the safe, steady...
...blows to land. In speeches and on TV and radio, he has hammered home the virtues of his tuition bill, and aides are planning a blitz of new initiatives on health, crime and transportation. If Blair emerges relatively unscathed from the David Kelly report and ekes out even a narrow victory on tuition fees, he could climb back. "People don't want wishy-washy Prime Ministers," says Nick Sparrow, managing director of ICM. "In six months, if they think Blair stuck to what he believes in, a narrow victory could do him good...