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...complex issue involving aid to Poland’s then-military regime. “The monosyllabic words that conjure images immediately [have] stuck in my memory,” Pinker said. He also explained the importance of clarity in order to break through the “needless obfuscation” found in science and humanities papers, which Pinker blamed on academics’ laziness, insularity, and compulsion to establish their identity in a privileged group. Conciseness was particularly useful for Pinker during his February appearance on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report...
...from being challenged, the system typically emerges unscathed, while the agents charged with its transformation find themselves transformed. At Harvard, this became particularly clear in my sophomore year, when some progressive comrades joined various Finals Clubs with the (admittedly only half-hearted) intention of working on them from within. Needless to say, despite the intervening years, the clubs remain unaffected, still all-too-prominent examples of unnecessary, self-important exclusivity. Instead of entrusting the task of social change to an especially charismatic individual then, we must emphasize the necessarily collective character of any progressive project. Our goal being the radical...
...have drowned. There are cats that love to play at water - many people will leave a little drip going in their sink, and cats can play for hours in the dripping water. So, what happens is they go to play in it, and the sides of the toilet bowl, needless to say, are very slippery. If the seat is down, but the lid is up, there is really no way for cats to get out. There's nothing to get a grip on, not even the edge of the toilet because the seat is over it. Keeping the lid down...
...with his own brother (Ethan Hawke). He is in trouble at work - well-founded suspicions of embezzlement - and he is also the masterless mind behind a plan to rob a suburban jewelry store - which just happens to be owned by his very own parents (Albert Finney and Rosemary Harris). Needless to say, this not exactly capering caper goes murderously awry. We quickly understand that nothing good is going to come out of this mess for Andy. He, of course, does not catch the drift toward disaster. Coolly smiling, eerily calm almost to the end, he keeps manufacturing work-arounds that...
...business leaders who have won their corner offices by age 45. This group of BlackBerry-wielding overachievers has filled every seat to hear from a man who will let them know that, despite the title on their business cards, they are functioning at less than full throttle, distracted by needless anxiety and basically missing the boat on their voyage through life. He's a man who adds new meaning to the phrase business guru: 80-year-old Swami Parthasarathy...