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Before shopping period has even ended, however, we are struck by the less exciting realities of undergraduate academic life: rigid requirements, a confusing and sometimes inadequate advising system and a want of meaningful faculty contact. We're reminded that Harvard is not a small liberal arts college. The great passion and sincere curiosity with which we had set out on our trip subside, and in their place we find a general indifference...
This year, my colleagues on the Undergraduate Council and I will be working with students, administrators and members of the faculty to address some of Harvard's academic shortcomings, to foster a vibrant intellectual community and to help each of us rediscover that great passion more often throughout the year...
HENRY CISNEROS Former Housing Secretary lied to the FBI about how much money he paid his mistress to keep their relationship quiet--a crime of private passion with which Clinton might have identified...
...Dance" is a movie that can be enjoyed without guilt. Yeah, sure, there's a lost generation of young folks out there who are buying Britney Spears records and 'NSync concert tickets and watching "TRL" on a regular basis and writing Carson Daly fan letters streaked with tears of passion. But that doesn't mean they don't deserve to be entertained, does...
...think that Americans, inflamed by television, are moving in the opposite direction - toward haragei and away from intelligent argument about anything. Television detests an open mind. An open mind is bad theater. What television wants is passion, vivid characters defined only by the positions that they hold, the ideas that they enact: heroes and villains, politics as extreme fighting. Television's idea of good civics is people screaming at each other from opposite sides of an issue for the entertainment of a nation of groundlings. And television's bottom-feeding, bottom-lining imperatives (a noisy swordplay of issues...