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...bestseller to my resume. In “The Death of Ivan Ilyich,” Leo Tolstoy equated modern urban life to “the example of a stone falling downwards with increasing velocity.” Bureaucratic jobs, endless soirées and “proper?? marriages to fill our social roles, applicable to 19th century Moscow or Cambridge tomorrow. A tragic mirage that entails hypocrisy, emptiness, and cocktail parties...
...Where Harvard professors missed the board altogether, Kellaway, and, to a lesser extent, Bradley, hit the bullseye. Pundits who used Summers’ ouster to score political points—either against political correctness, the Left, or Harvard faculty proper??were blinded by their own prejudices to what has always been a case of clashing management styles. Eugene Robinson of the Post summarized these wrongheaded opinions brilliantly: “Summers came to be seen as the champion of those who believe that elite American campuses are under the evil sway of a smug, leftist, feminist, multi-culti...
...morning news circuit—talking about? It’s worth noting that the power of “executive order” is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. Instead, there is a boundless and vague phrase that, not unlike the “necessary and proper?? clause taken to mean that Congress can legislate basically anything, leaves it open for debate: “the executive Power,” with a capital ‘P,’ “shall be invested in a President of the United States...
...would justify this the same way they justify Elmo’s speech patterns: as the FAQ on their website claims, “Like most three-and-a-half-year-olds, [Elmo] doesn’t always have the mature skills or knowledge to speak ‘proper?? English.” Apparently this reasoning isn’t good enough to support Cookie’s snack-filled fun. To tell you the truth, I am much more scared at the prospect of teaching children to speak in the third person—as Elmo...
That distinction appeared intended to set the University apart from any larger debate over PetroChina or the genocide in Sudan, including growing movements at other campuses to divest as well. But the wording—“the University simply does not consider it proper??—left little room to discern why PetroChina was unique among several other holdings to which some advocates have objected...