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Your attitude should extend beyond the sphere of your writing into your personal life. The paragon of Harvard opinion-makers, Rob Wasinger '94, was known by every student and administrator in his days at Peninsula. Wasinger led a one-man crusade against the Liberal Menace. Like him, you should remember that it's more important to be remembered than to be believed...
...next question was equally patronizing and arrogant, typical of a Harvard mind. Was this lady crazy? Didn't she understand that Harvard is the very paragon of enlightenment? She needed to get a grip on reality. Harvard teaches math, political science, physics, English. Its students and teachers are the best thinkers and human beings around...
...Joseph Jett really appreciated Nietzsche's message, he would have been a paragon of brutal honesty. So does that make Wall Street an appropriate destination...
...surprise that Clinton is trying to wigglehis way out of following through on his ultimatum to China. Clinton made a specific campaign point of his own firmness about cutting off trade benefits to China if its leaders did not improve their human rights record. George Bush, according to the paragon of Arkansanian virtue, was a Sinophile prone to coddling his old friends in the PRC gerontocracy...
...also mentioned cry) and reason as "any one of a dozen other appealing oversimplifications." You call these oversimplifications? Good Lord! These entirely human capacities not only constitute essential differences between us and the animals but are crucial to understanding the uniquely human predicament. We are, as Shakespeare said, the "paragon of animals" precisely because we possess the capability of using language, creating mathematical concepts, writing music and, above all, perceiving our own immortality. Not to appreciate this fact is to succumb to populist, if not sophomoric, anthropomorphism in which an attempt to raise the status of the lower animals...