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...days. It was a perfect thing from the parties’ point of view; they had achieved parity. I don’t think it had anything to do with the democratic process or with anything in our politics that came before. I thought it was very peculiar, and I thought it was unfortunate that the Supreme Court decided to hear...
More than a few Harvard students have told the tale of how they confusedly stumbled onto the grounds of Lesley College, perhaps of how they at first mistook the fully female student body as some peculiar extension of the law school. But many more have never even heard of the institution. Details about this women’s college remain a quiet mystery. And yet the Lesley girls are eager to break the silence. There are a few things that they think people should know about them. At the top of the list: that they exist...
...today, 80 years after Lowell’s attempts to root out those who would not modify their “peculiar practices,” Lawrence H. Summers will be officially installed as the first Jewish president of Harvard University...
...Slate is a perfect example. Essentially, it is a bunch of extremely nice, WASPy-looking, middle-aged men selling overpriced stationery. Does this strike anyone else as being slightly peculiar? I go in, spend one minute picking up a $6.95 green-tinted, college-ruled notebook because I’m too lazy to walk to Staples, and inevitably spend five exchanging interminable pleasantries with Mike, the overzealous cashier. It’s like trying to get off the phone with your grandmother. Do I want a bag with that? No? Need a receipt? No? Crazy weather we?...
...real loss we feel at senseless death and suffering cannot be explained or understood without a God to endow value to we peculiar arrangements of molecules. Nor can our moral outrage gain any traction without a judge and executor to give justification to our preference to live rather than...