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Four years on the shores of the Charles give one a long time to ponder questions of great metaphysical importance. Inevitably, Harvard first-years spend countless evenings discussing the afterlife, the nature of truth, and the congenital incompetence of University Health Services. But by senior year, the pall of alienation and anomie have descended upon the residents of the college, and discussion turns to more mundane and materialistic subjects: law school, investment banking, and fellowships...
...speech at the Kennedy School, ABC News commentator Cokie Roberts decried voters' desire to attach "electrodes" to their representatives, in order to shock them whenever they ponder voting the "wrong...
...music, harsh in his judgments and the pain he inflicts on his body. The score of the film is--unsurprisingly--superb, with Gould's actual recordings providing the framework. Life and the artist are given to us but with this successful minimalist style, leave us enough room to ponder the madness and strange sensibility of Glenn Gould...
...every time I go there." Jameson Firestone, 27, has established his own law firm in Moscow and can't imagine going back to a less hectic legal career in the U.S.: "Here the work is like being a doctor in an emergency room -- everything is critical." When he does ponder life after Moscow, Firestone looks for the exotic rather than the homegrown: "Jakarta, maybe. I hear that's a pretty interesting place...
Every year, it's the same old story. Late at night, on the eve of shopping period, Harvard students sequester themselves in their rooms to ponder the answer to a weighty question: which four courses truly warrant the expense of my considerable intellectual capital...