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...light of the description above, I would like to present my "Hunter-Gatherer Theory" of Harvard classes. In talking classes, the students are hunters. The object of the class is to use one's ideas, words and oratory skills to hunt down and "kill" the ideas and words of others. There is a free-market competition of ideas at play in these classes which is directed and perpetuated by a kind of intellectually Darwinist atmosphere. Those equipped with the most extensive verbal weaponry, the thickest rebuttal armor, and the necessary obsession with intellectual combat are most likely to win. Aggressiveness...
...Winslet and third-class cute guy DiCaprio. The director says he's fascinated by the notion that people who were supposed to be coddled and secure were facing imminent doom. "They thought they were safe in this big luxury hotel," he says. "In fact, they were in a steel object over 2 1/2 miles of water...It's a metaphor for the inevitability of death. We're all on the Titanic." Maybe so, but at the moment executives at Fox and Paramount are probably feeling it more than the rest...
...fact that they are extremely lucrative, that many of those who enter that world come out very wealthy people. The world of law and business, money management and investment is cast in one great dark shadow--MONEY. To observers, this is what that world is about. Money is an object, or a commodity which people love to hate. There is something "cool" or noble about choosing to belittle the significance of money, and something weak and compromising about attributing to it great importance. In Gen Ed 105, in the world in which journalists and artists are glorified, pre-law students...
...Jewell and his lawyers object to comments made by Tom Brokaw on the day Jewell's name surfaced: "The speculation is that the FBI is close to 'making the case,' in their language. They probably have enough on him to arrest him right now, probably enough to prosecute him, but you always want to have enough to convict him as well." But Brokaw then went on to note several times that Jewell was not yet even an official suspect...
...Americans can readily identify Pamela Churchill Harriman, born Pamela Beryl Digby 76 years ago in England and currently U.S. ambassador to France. But in the international world of the redundantly rich and overpowered, she has been an object of desire, scorn, envy and grudging respect for more than 50 years...