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What a cop-out. Warren Buffet started giving away the bulk of his fortune (about $37 billion) to save the least among us and did not even garner a nod in your People Who Mattered profiles, but I get top honors for watching viral videos on YouTube and reading self-important diary entries on MySpace? I suppose the moral relativism that rationalizes genocide and ethnic cleansing around the world now includes something we could call footprint relativism--everyone impacts humankind differently, but all contributions are equal. In a year when you tried to recognize everyone as special, you made sure...
...pleasing tenor of the events reeks of a self-conscious desire to highlight all soft-focus interest groups that come with the Pelosi package: Italian, female, Catholic, grandmother. With so many facets illuminated, perhaps Pelosi's people are hoping no one notices what's been left out: the only nod to Pelosi's actual home district and voting record may well be Bennett's theme song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco...
Just 13 months before the Iowa caucus kicks off the official drive to the Democratic nomination for president, one potential candidate for the nod stated his case in Kirkland House this Friday. Senator and possible nominee Christopher J. Dodd, D.-Conn., fielded questions from about 350 spectators during the first leg of “Conversations with Candidates.” The series, hosted by the Harvard College Democrats, has at least four more potential presidential nominees lined up, said Dems Vice President Harlan M. Piper ’08. Piper declined to specify which candidates. While Dodd...
...chairs, not wanting to miss a word of their lecture on Cauchy sequences. As if apprentices in the presence of a brilliant impressionist painter, they focus their attention on Gaitsgory’s canvas, their eyes darting to follow the flurry of bold, erratic strokes across the blackboard. Each nod marks a step closer to comprehension, but as the lecture progresses, brows begin to furrow...
Finally, what are we to make of Dartmouth’s fellow Ivy institution Penn, and its nickname, the Quakers? Or ECAC rival Union (Dutchmen), for that matter? The parallel to UND is that the nickname is a nod to the ethnic/religious group that used to form a majority in the area where the school is located. If it is simply impolite to cite such a group, Penn wouldn’t get off scot-free. But I’m being silly! Everyone knows the Friends practice pacifism. Very few people know that Native Americans didn?...