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...American environment so saturated with non-credible opinions, mudslinging and a major overload of information, telling the candidates apart is often difficult. How refreshing to read convincing, well presented opinions on the pages of our nation’s newspapers. These endorsements are not only effective but crucial in the last frantic hours of this election. To the still undecided: read the endorsements. Get informed. Make a choice. The next four years might depend...
...external pressures of career success.” Professor Vendler proposes that each student develop a list each year of books to read for pleasure, in order to develop a life-long excitement about reading and thought. The idea is well-meant, but seems quaint, considering the present reading overload to which we are subjected. Vendler worries that Harvard is not teaching us the “pleasurable vagaries of independent personal reading,” and indeed she is not off the mark. But mandatory voluntary reading, without a rethinking of the methodologies of courses, would not help...
There are ways out of the overload. We students can—and do—reclaim meaningful discussion whenever possible, by squeezing in a short debate over dinner, or by attempting to share our thoughts and discoveries with our roommates. Forcing ourselves to close-read, question, think, and above all, remember, is all we can do. We cannot change academic standards, but we can make the world of college our own. An incredibly fortunate combination of factors grants us four years to reflect, four years to define for ourselves what matters and how we will approach the world. Productivity...
...That just didn't jibe with what I was seeing," Cody vividly recalls. "It had been raining for a week, everything was wet, the packers were angry. I had a 3-year-old, a 6-week-old and a mother-in-law to deal with. I was on total overload, so I said to myself, O.K., this doesn't quite fit; she doesn't seem like a vegetable. I'll deal with that later...
...contain fiber and break down slowly when digested, avoiding those damaging sugar and insulin spikes. The bad ones are found in white rice, potatoes, most commercial breads and all manner of processed crackers, cookies, chips, soda and candy bars. Bad carbs break down more quickly and result in sugar overload...