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This is basically a porn short filmed by the production company that makes airline safety videos. Par for the course, 50 Cent continues his streak of rapping about stuff he likes, and the whole thing leaves me feeling a bit empty because “Magic Stick” was such a better song...
Most important, Summers should recognize the value of Harvard’s faculty. The University would not be the most distinguished university in the world with sub-par professors. Summers must realize that ignoring, brushing off, or failing to solicit their collective wisdom is not just a poor leadership decision. It is an arrogant...
...From Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons," toured Europe to spread the not unreasonable idea that Dali was a significant precursor of Pop and postmodernism. In the same spirit he is being re-examined by academics and curators as a pioneer of the artist as public performer, role model par excellence for Andy Warhol and Koons. It might not seem like a good thing to re-emerge as the original media whore, but there's no denying Dali's role in making showmanship an art-world career tactic...
...students linked together in one vast electronic embrace are too great to imagine. Harvard men and women alike would be able to finally take advantage of one of the reasons that convinced them to go here in the first place: Boston’s status as a college town par excellence...
Perhaps worse than the bell curve’s rigid predestination is that the curve stifles students’ interest in the material and actually ensures a sub par effort from many undergraduates. A friend of mine recently provided me with an example. She was assigned her first paper for a class, and was determined to do well on it. She spent a week outlining, drafting, rewriting—making sure she had covered every point and counterpoint, every nuance in her paper. The result of this incredible effort was a B+. When the next paper was assigned, she decided...