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...Rogers had been a super-intelligent rocket scientist instead of a Presbyterian minister.) "When Molly's unfortunate plight became apparent, it all started getting connected to the physical world. It really made you think about the brain and the self, and how the brain determines who the person...
...genre may be specifically political or more broadly humanist, but its codes and attitudes are as rigid as those for an old-time western or musical. The plot typically begins with a decent person suffering some outrage by an oppressive overlord, whether military, governmental or corporate. It goes on to chronicle the steps by which our hero either exacts righteous revenge or, if it's a tragedy, is crushed by the system. The goal of the movie is to provoke some fellow feeling for the world's underdogs. Then, cleansed and spiritually enriched, you can return to American Idol...
...spot-on in its treatment of the exchange of taboos between close friends, I believe Kawaller misses the mark when he extends his analysis to public figures. His logic is that a word such as “faggot” loses its sting if the person saying it is cuddly, left-of-center, and/or not despicable—so Jon Stewart makes the cut, while Ann Coulter does not. One need not look far to see the consequences of this focus on the speaker rather than the speech. For instance, a certain racial slur is okay...
...eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! Pretzels are delicious! How can I be sure that I won’t be mistaken for a creeper, like you were?” Luckily for you, it really is not hard to avoid the label of a “suspicious person...
...incentive schemes are. In January, the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development at FAS released an extensive report which suggests tying pay raises to teaching in more extensive and explicit ways. Such changes are critical to improve pedagogy at Harvard, which can be wildly inconsistent. We hope that person who will actually institute these reforms—the next FAS dean—will follow HMS’s lead. Then, maybe, he or she will also be “a dean of the students...