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Some people manage to find purpose despite this, making from wholly earthly values a sufficient basis for moral choice and a meaningful life. Love--even if it can be reduced to psychological explanations--can still make the world go round. Justice--even if its origin is political--can still be legitimate. Beauty--even if its perception is hostage to the taste of local tribes--can still move the spirit...
...young men entering college were allowed to choose their Houses, those coming from the same school, or from schools of the same type and from similar early surroundings, would naturally select the same House; and thus there would be a segregation among the Houses on the basis of origin--certainly a most unfortunate one," wrote President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, in his annual report...
According to a New York Times Magazine article earlier this month, the admissions committee seeks diversity of all kinds. The College strives for a diversity of ethnic background, place of origin, religious background, academic interests and socioeconomic status, to name...
...basic storyline is easy enough. American professor Michael Padovic (Malkovich) needs but a few more documents to prove the gist of his thesis that Shakespeare was of Spanish origin, not British. Supposedly, the archives of the convent of Arrabida contain the marriage contract of Jacques Perez, the man Padovic claims is the true Shakespeare--"Jacques Perez," when mangled into English, could conceivably sound like Shakespeare...
...that had begun to seem a good thing. Government investigators believe Kaczynski took buses from Lincoln to Helena to Butte, Montana, where he could have connected to Salt Lake City, Utah--the origin of several of the bomber's 1980s strikes--or to Sacramento, California, and the San Francisco Bay Area, from which four 1990s bombs were sent. But pinpointing his presence in those destinations was tougher. Despite his family's statements that Kaczynski lived in Salt Lake City in the early 1970s, checks with motels and blood banks have failed to turn up any record of him there...