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...Wood frequently interrupts himself with his own enthusiasm—“What a piece of writing this is!” or “What an amazingly blasphemous little mélange.” At times, his selections read like a “best of?? edition of the Western canon—the most poignant selections of Stendhal, Woolf, and Nabokov. By the end of the book, you want nothing more than to curl up with one of Wood’s favorites and continue to marvel.Wood’s insistence...
...year, a half-century after it was made, not one but two “girls” have drawn within practical inches of the Oval Office. But the governor’s point remains clear: Ours is an exceptional nation, for our commitment to—or pretension of??classless meritocracy, representative democracy in its purest, fairest form, and an undying optimism about our shared future.Today, one of the women Stevenson infelicitously dismissed with his remark has nevertheless taken up his banner, in a very different way. Governor Sarah Palin has made much ado over her belief...
...truth is that we can’t all be immediate experts in every realm of our lives. I happen to be living proof of this. It’s been a long road to mastering the simple, and one I haven’t reached the end of??but I’ve come to accept and even embrace that. So long as I never have to make a right hand turn along the way, I have faith that I’ll make it there okay...
...Since then, my life has been a series of blessings. I grew up in a home that most children can only dream of??an only child and grandchild showered with more love and support than any person reasonably deserves. I’ve been surrounded by good friends and sustained by good health. Despite their modest means, my parents were determined to give me the very best education in the world, and now I have the great opportunity and responsibility of passing that on to others. By every measure, I am among the luckiest of men, rich...
...main pivot behind the Core Curriculum, as outlined by University President A. Lawrence Lowell was that“every educated person should know a little of everything and something well. Similarly, the goal of General Education is for us students to “understand [our]selves as products of??and participants in—traditions of art, ideas, and values.” These ideals are lofty and laudable. Unfortunately, though, they have proven nearly impossible to achieve in an efficient and well-implemented manner. As such, students have been left instead as products of?...