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...choose your addictions carefully. Notice the space you live in, and think about its possible meanings. Engage with some significant works of literature—defined in the broadest sense to include really any field of study: when you are directly in touch with profound writing and thought, when you are talking in an engaged way with others about such work, then you are likely to feel completely alert, alive and enlarged. And that is education...
...Harvard Square has been prime real estate for longer than the United States has been a country, but in recent years rents have spiraled so drastically as to threaten a profound change to the landscape...
When the FBI came swarming into the Vista Hotel in downtown Washington on Jan. 18, 1990, it was a terrible blow to the career of Mayor Marion Barry. It also had a profound effect on the career of another individual--this year's Harvard Law School Class Day speaker, Greta Van Susteren...
...There are no rules in journalism, which gives me profound respect for the law," Van Susteren says. She notes that while journalists are allowed to use anonymous sources in their reporting, such practices are prohibited in the legal profession...
...about that dusty old Remington typewriter we still love, few among us really want to adopt Luddite lifestyles. And we'd risk missing real progress if we did. The same digital innovations that are incrementally enhancing the realms of sex, sports and entertainment are also changing our world in profound ways. Doctors can conduct surgery remotely, controlling robotic hands from great distances. Quadriplegics can move their paralyzed limbs, implanted with sensors, just by focusing their brain waves. The faithful can find like-minded believers in a persecution-free online environment that can be as anonymous as anyone wishes. These applications...