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...categories--merit and non-merit. Clearly, a strong essay or a commitment to athletics is deserving of merit, whereas a person's skin color, residence or parents are hardly indicative of achievement. In lumping these two separate and distinct categories together, the University of Michigan heads down the wrong path...
...track up is this one, and it is a joy. And I was immediately transported back to the Jones I know and love. Though at first listen it appears to be a somewhat forbidding dirge - a slow-paced recitation of the good deeds that will put one on the path to the Pearly Gates - it proves to be a one-track demonstration of almost every weapon in the Possum's considerable vocal arsenal. The first line is understated, almost spoken. The second builds. The third is a crescendo, culminating in what must be the most fabulous single-syllable word ever...
...Charles M. Schulz became the highest paid, most widely read cartoonist ever. The only modern American comic strip artist to be given a retrospective at the Louvre, he was now in a class by himself. His characters cut a broad path across commerce and culture; Charlie Brown and Snoopy could go from being cartoon pitchmen for cars and life insurance, their huge heads and tiny bodies stretched across blimps at golf tournaments, to being the inspiration for a "Peanuts" concerto by contemporary composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, premiering at Carnegie Hall. At the peak of Schulz's popularity, "Peanuts" captured...
...proud son of a one-term President, could there be a more humbling path to power than this? The candidate with the perfect bloodlines comes to office amid charges that his is a bastard presidency, sired not by the voters but by the courts. You could almost see the weight of it, the regret and relief and resolve, when Bush rose last Wednesday night with tears in his eyes and promised, "I will work to earn your respect," all but admitting it does not just come with the job when you win this way. But could anyone possibly use this...
...that all this trendsetting necessarily takes a straight and narrow path. There is almost invariably always an ironic corollary to the trends set by the predilections of the President...