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...last week's Newsweek, there is one anecdote which defines Jordan's baseball misadventures. With his Birhimgham Barons playing the Memphis Chicks-Jordan came to the plate with two down in the ninth and the game on the line...
...example, according to post-modernism no one can rightfully claim that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is superior to a song called "Cop Killer." No one can justify that Michelangelo's "David" is a better work of art than Duchamp's "The Fountain" (an upside down urinal). There is no longer an objective standard for evaluating...
...University announced today that the Loeb family has made a $70.5 million gift, the largest donation to Harvard ever from a living benefactor and the ninth largest in the history of higher education...
Some may argue against surveys by claiming that most students learn the basics in high school. Come now, let's be serious. I haven't had European history since ninth grade and that was with a teacher who was arguably deader than the white males we were studying. Granted, I'm an electrical engineer. I admit that many history majors probably do enter the university with the facts required to jump right into micro analysis...
...still amazingly negligent. As Professor Hankins so succinctly phrases it, "I feel sorry for these poor guys in chemistry or physics who are going to take two history courses in their lives and they are forced to take some microevent--the emergence of basket weaving in Tibet in the ninth century or some-thing like that...