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...hear graduates shaking their mortar-boarded heads in unison and maintaining that what I’ve said is painfully obvious. No one thinks they work just to work, because no one wants to believe they’ve become the embodiment of the Protestant Ethic or the Spirit of Capitalism. But the truth is that even the most laid-back socialist-leaning Catholic-Jewish Asian-Spanish-Eastern Europeans among us have internalized some of those principles. Until I gave them up last summer, that...
...Finally, Rice will give Republicans something to get excited about. Since when have Republicans had a young and energizing candidate? Her novelty will engender Obama-esque press. Because Rice is not the obvious choice for vice president, many will be captivated. In this modern age where the media and the photo-op are pivotal, Rice will keep the Republican Party on the airwaves...
...Fair Harvard” is a delightful hymn describing the excitement of Commencement day. The original language ("thy sons to thy jubilee throng") indicates that students, admittedly male students, are "thronging" to the "jubilee" of Harvard graduation. The easiest reading of the new verse presents an obvious grammatical problem: “We join in thy jubilee throng,” is essentially saying “we come together at your jubilee.” This complete statement then leaves a lonely verb, “throng,” at the end of the verse...
...such high prices for crude oil has been painful. Gas prices around $4 a gallon are a huge burden for many households, as well as for truckers, manufacturers, farmers, and others. But, in many other ways, the economic consequences have been quite different from those of the 1970s. One obvious difference is what you don't see: drivers lining up on odd or even days to buy gasoline because of price controls or signs at gas stations that say "No gas." And until the recent slowdown--which is more the result of conditions in the residential housing market...
...crushed it, and installed one of their own, University President Drew G. Faust, to replace him as President. Here was a display of dominance rarely seen at Harvard, which usually prefers to veil its changes of regime. How it happened is not yet clear, but that it happened is obvious...