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...write on page 9, "Today's worship of physical perfection is more grotesque than Hitler's notion of the Aryan." But then on page 130, you joke that "The only sort of authority Cindy Sheehan has is the uncanny ability to demonstrate, by example, what body types should avoid wearing shorts in public." So which is it: are we allowed to joke about physical imperfections or is it grotesque...
...come to terms with the fact that momentum for the midterm elections will not materialize simply because they preordain it in the media or because they ask their special interest friends to buy it for them. The results in San Diego show that nothing has happened to alter the notion that House elections are about a choice between local personalities focused on local issues." His spokesman Carl Forti added, for good measure: "There are no moral victories in politics. A loss, is a loss, is a loss...
...further discussion matters little unless the Faculty is willing to push forward implementation with its votes. As it stands, the review has stalled ostensibly due to the absence of a permanent dean or president (and, for several months, the Faculty’s obsession with ousting Summers). But the notion that the departure of two men could leave the process so crippled has little basis in reality. Indeed, if there is anything newly appointed University President Derek C. Bok and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles could shepherd without controversy, it is the curricular review that has been three...
...Harvard rallied around its traditions of allowing ideas to be freely expressed, and Fast spoke and was listened to politely. He changed no one’s mind. Life went on as before. As students, we were proud of Harvard and its administration for its steadfast support of the notion that the function of a university is to be a marketplace of ideas, where any viewpoint, no matter how unpopular and even dangerous it may seem, is entitled to be heard with respect. We believed, as did the men and women who taught at Harvard, that the antidote for hateful...
...don’t give a lot of credibility to the notion that the questions social scientists and historians are asking today are better than they were in the 20th or 19th century,” he says...