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Next time Harry R. Lewis writes to encourage me, I have half a mind to write back and tell him about the rattlings and my own vague unease, which I expect to persist in the face of whatever institutional changes are in the works. In any case, they are likely to be small ones, since Harvard doesn’t change easily, and it doesn’t change much. Yet some things are bound to change: modern students are the great 20th century innovation, at once the product and the customer. If this is the case, I wonder what...
Strong individual rights that protect property and prevent persecution fuel this new growth. Although far too much poverty and corruption persist, Mozambique’s poor are thankful to avoid Zimbabwe’s absolute poverty, famine and persecution...
...infuse their only child with the liberal Jewish New York/Boston outlook amidst this strange breed known as Midwesterners: People who say pop instead of soda; melk instead of milk; and who still wonder why the hell those things that look so much like donuts taste so funny (and who persist in calling them bag-els instead of bay-gels...
...overwhelming preponderance of the 400 poems depict slavery as ugly, evil, despicable - which in turn raises other questions. How could slavery persist so long? Were these writers merely marginalized social critics, powerless to change things? Perhaps the answer lies with Percy Bysshe Shelley, the British poet, who wrote in 1820 that "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." Perhaps all these writers shaped attitudes and sensibilites in the general public that eventually reached a critical mass, a tipping point that led - by both peaceful and violent means - to emancipation...
Powers said in an interview last night that he is considering moving functions away from the Faculty Club if the workers persist with their complaints. He also said he could not rule outthe possibility that the Faculty Club might beclosed entirely...