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Lear emphasized the importance of developing an appreciation for irony—the circumstance in which a seemingly comfortable truth returns in an unfamiliar form, disrupting one??s world-view and self-perception...
While acknowledging the ironies of life can be difficult, Lear said, this step is the key to achieving “human excellence.” He also focused on the necessity of accepting one??s own ignorance to achieve excellence...
...Book Espresso Machine, Google Books, and the myriad other print digitization schemes now afoot carry the danger of turning research into something that can be conducted without ever leaving the compass of one??s local bookstore—or even one??s desk. Surely the heyday of the academic as an explorer, an adventurer, traveling to distant libraries in search of rare and exotic books, has already passed. But must technology wipe away all vestiges of that former side to the vocation...
That said, we understand the hesitations that donors may have in giving money to Harvard for no clearly specified reason. Regardless of one??s opinion of the Harvard Management Corporation, the university no longer has a golden reputation when it comes to managing money effectively. The university should therefore strive for transparency with regard to both its budget and in how it will allocate these unrestricted funds—if not to reveal the details of how they will be spent, then at least to ensure donors that they will be spent wisely...
While both of these releases have certain appeal for fans of the band, the value of spending 70 minutes listening to four strangers blabber on (with subtitles, to boot!) about their favorite songs may seem dubious. But regardless of one??s relation to the band, there is something undeniably modern and worthwhile in hearing people so deeply moved by such diverse forms of music speaking as much from their standpoint as musicians and songwriters, as from the position of common music lovers. Songs are held up as often for their craftsmanship as their ability to enhance everyday life...