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Still, we shouldn't entirely omit academics from the lady's Greek life. As one sorority president pointed out, academics is one of Kappa Alpha Theta's "three aims," along with slumber parties and memorizing the Greek alphabet...
Fascinating, surprising -- even shocking. But accurate? With any survey, there is a risk that respondents will exaggerate, omit facts or otherwise fail to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Especially on sensitive subjects like sexual behavior. There is also the risk that the sample will not represent a fair cross section. Both of these problems have plagued earlier sex surveys, including the landmark reports issued by Alfred Kinsey in the 1940s and '50s. The team from the University of Chicago that produced the new study was determined to do better...
...director of Wyatt Earp, Lawrence Kasdan (he also wrote the screenplay with Dan Gordon), is obviously of the school that believes all inclusiveness is a reasonable trade-off for insight. Or maybe, like a lot of literary biographers these days, he can't bear to omit any of his research. But his approach prevents Wyatt Earp from developing a compelling dramatic arc, and it doesn't help a rather glum and withdrawn Kevin Costner make the eponymous protagonist into a dynamic or even very attractive figure. Mostly he is fate's pawn, grimly enduring one damn thing after another...
...order to reach his audience, Spielberg had to focus on some of the positive aspects of the Holocaust, namely an exciting story of heroism. But Spielberg does not fabricate anything, and he does not omit anything either. The movie graphically displays mass shootings, the liquidation of a Polish ghetto and the gas chambers at Auschwitz...
This is also not to say that Harvard students are morally bankrupt. Roughly 60 percent are involved in some community service activity during their four years here. Many Harvard people act morally; all too often, however, they omit morality from their justifications for their actions...