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...mention all this because, as I begin this reading period, the calendar reads 2001. A semester from now, I will graduate from Harvard (assuming the thesis and the last Core course chug along fine). Next year, I will not have this knowledge-gathering period, this peculiar pause when there is much to be learned--about friends, out-of-the-way places, and what will stick with you years from now. College itself is a vacation, a chance to take a long view and get immersed in a subject in a way few jobs allow. To my pleasant surprise...
...doubt. But, as the '60s intensified, as the Vietnam War failed and nothing quite worked out, as the triumphal quality of American life modulated, "Peanuts" became a refuge. Schulz became the patron saint of people who were putting up with all they could take. Reading the strip was a peculiar mixture of utter forgetfulness and at the same time, tremendous consciousness. "Peanuts" was proof that you were not alone when you woke in the middle of the night marooned with your failures, staring into the dark, worrying that the world had gone...
...There are at least two (equally skeptical) views of Bush's bipartisan achievements in the Lone Star State. Some argue Bush succeeded because he learned (and excelled at) Texas's peculiar political culture. "In part," writes the New York Times' Jim Yardley, "Bush succeeded [in Texas] because his political style, built in part upon schmoozing and personal contact, played well in the backslapping culture of the Capitol...
...peculiar thing happened this week. For the first time in 70 years, a Harvard student was not among the 32 college seniors and recent graduates selected as American Rhodes scholars...
...Democrats "have a strong case if we insist on following technicalities," says University of Miami law professor Mary Coombs. "But ultimately the application went out to the right person, who ended up being able to vote for whom he wanted. Tossing out the ballots seems to be a very peculiar remedy for the harm that happened...