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...speed up horses." A director also has a tough time making the old new--and the western is 19th century. "Americans don't like the past," says Andrew Dominik, the New Zealand-born writer-director of Jesse James. "They're O.K. with future and the present, but they can't remember anything before 1980." They see the western as a historical costume drama--Merchant Ivory in chaps...
...freshmen?” Because the freshmen won’t be like freshmen for very long. In a few months they’ll be Harvard students like everyone else, and many will gain a cynicism and sarcasm about Harvard and themselves that wasn’t present before. But recently, events have been reminding me that I am, indeed, a senior: I’ve spell-checked my name as it will appear on my diploma, and I’ve been photographed for a yearbook I barely knew existed. I’ll never get another chance...
...points to a troubling trend in academia. Increasingly, the unrestricted marketplace of ideas that must form the heart of any university worth the name is being poisoned by a perverse pressure to conform truth to political agenda and stifle any speaker who espouses uncomfortable or invonveneint opinions. In the present case, the culprits are academics who fashion themselves as progressives eager for social justice and tolerance, but the other side of the political spectrum is no less guilty in others. This situation is alarming and dangerous. If academic freedom cannot exist in the university, our society is in trouble...
Paul J. Hegarty, superintendent of Leverett House, said he never opens a storage room unless he is sure that there will be a storage monitor present to check identification cards and storage tags...
...single formula predictably yields lively discussion. But by the same token, no mix of people, however “naturally” incompatible, is doomed to make a terrible section. A single strong personality has the power to completely alter the chemistry. And if no such personality is already present, students have a responsibility to fill in and act the necessary roles until the blend seems right. If no one is speaking up, someone needs to act the provocateur. If the atmosphere is poisoned, someone needs to act the peacemaker. If people are stiff, someone needs to act the clown...