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...That's it? No wonder adolescents find the dictionary such a poor source of sex education. It's a small word, but how ungenerous can Mr. Webster be? Isn't sex something unbelievably profound: the very issue upon which the shoulder-perched angel and devil debate, the very act by which all of us were forged and, last but not least, the powerful, enigmatic engines in our collective Freudian and Darwinian (or Confucian and Buddhist) boiler rooms? If there are sex maniacs, after all, what are they getting maniacal about? The two divisions of animals and plants...
...have repeatedly criticized the search committee for its refusal to involve the entire Harvard community in what is perhaps the most important decision a university can make. Students had a profound interest in participating in this vital discussion on Harvard's future--it seems unrealistic to believe that Harvard students would have had nothing to contribute to the selection of the president of their University...
...justice is the most profound responsibility of public life, it is also the one we are least suited to fulfill. It's no mystery why this should be. We're human. Our byways are complicated. The institutions of law are infected with the same shortcomings--greed, dishonesty, weakness, indifference, anger--that give rise to injustice in the first place. On the everyday working level, criminal justice is like chemotherapy. We throw our little poisons at big ones...
...lost many centuries ago. They come to us with a scattered, enigmatic quality--epigrams and bits of poetry saved from the ruins. But they also have a wit and, for someone known as an obscure philosopher, a prismatic clarity that travels well across centuries. The thoughts remain fresh and profound. Haxton's translation shines them up handsomely. "To a god the wisdom/of the wisest man/sounds apish. Beauty/in a human face/looks apish too./In everything/we have attained/the excellence of apes...
Changes to Harvard Standard Time may not be quickly forthcoming--in particular, the MAC will not see any renovations for months. But there is a trend toward reexamining the way Harvard sets its clocks that may have profound ramifications on student life...