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...Jill Anderson's offering, "Super Boring," is almost comically self-indicting. This too features ample negative space and a precious few broad stroke of black paint that take the form of a penguin and a personified rectangle. The image as a whole is tragically unimaginative and isn't at all visually fleshed out. Again, the commitment seems to be more to art theory than to art itself-the piece, if it speaks to its viewer at all, will surely do so in intellectual, and not aesthetic terms...
...tutorial environment, in which close interaction among a small group of students creates an intimate learning experience. By imposing a quota on the number of A and A- grades, this collaborative environment will be shattered: instead of building from the knowledge of fellow classmates, students will instead compete for precious class time and participation points, and teaching fellows will be forced to invent distinctions between equally good papers that can’t both receive A’s. Mansfield could have chosen merely to toughen grading standards in the course; instead, his choice of a numeric quota upsets...
...culture. Sontag has long been mocked and feared for her imposing figure, and nowhere do we see the intensity of her sternness than in an essay collection like this. It’s not her excessively dour prose style, but rather the cumulative effect of dozens of articles with precious few pauses to point out why these artists manage to be special in some way that hits the author, Susan Sontag, personally...
...away: Harvard students are too valuable to fight. We could better serve the country by working in labs or running businesses, than by fighting on the front lines. But can 31 percent of the student body really believe that, by virtue of being educated here, our lives are more precious than those of our fellow citizens? Justifications about the supposed value of a Harvard-educated citizen serve only to obfuscate the truth. Supporting war while refusing to fight creates and perpetuates inequality in our society. We think we are too valuable, so instead we send the poor, the uneducated...
That is the deep mystery of a great tragedy. So much that was precious has died, but as though in a kind of eternal promise, something new has been born. We are seeing it in our nation and sensing it in ourselves, a new faith in our oldest values, a rendezvous with grace. We may all be National Guardsmen in a year, or be having bottled-water drills. We may have lost even more people who are dear to us. But when a free people, who invented the idea of liberty as a form of government, rediscovers its power, there...