Word: notionalism
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...have to say, I’ve never been completely sold on the idea that the best way to deal with conflicts of interest is to pretend that they don’t exist. That said, I’ve always been partial to the rather sappy notion that the truth can change the world, and “the truth” is a lot more believable when it’s offered sans agenda...
...notion was simple and profound: corral some of the world's finest cineastes and ask each to make a vignette of life in one of the 20 Paris arrondisements (neighborhoods). The only requirements: the episode must be five to seven minutes long, and must have love as its subject. It might be the love of two strangers colliding on the streeet; of a woman for her dead child; the rediscovered devotion of a man thinking of leaving his wife; an engaged couple testing their bond in Père Lachaise cemetery; of a couple long separated and replaying their cutting...
...HEYDTThrough these last few years of transition at Harvard, a corrosive notion has been seeping into the groundwater: the idea that a “global university” should focus relatively less of its intellectual energy on the United States. To those who consider this country an experiment in noble and complex human principles, this way of thinking is merely disagreeable. But academic faux-cosmopolitanism is also just untrue: the U.S. is itself the keystone of any viable account of globalization. If anything, intellectual engagement with American public affairs should now be more, not less, central to Harvard?...
...all.Common complaint number three: “The administration doesn’t care about students.”I’ll admit to offering my own occasional dig at the administration when it seemed like perfect opportunities for a student center were wasted, or when the notion that undergraduates would indulge in late-night food if the College made it available flew over administrators’ heads. Indeed, change at Harvard rarely comes quickly. But we forget that change has been made. After all our complaints about concert debacles, the President’s Office opened...
...proposing sending additional National Guard troops to secure the U.S.-Canada border? Don't laugh. Ahmed Ressam, the so-called Millennium Bomber, was caught at the Canadian border with a trunk full of explosive precursor material and a plot to bomb Los Angeles Airport. And as for the notion that terrorists are mixing with undocumented border crossers to infiltrate the country from the south, all 19 of the 9/11 plotters entered the U.S. legally...