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...know that no public figure can operate effectively under such intense scrutiny. Summers has had his problems with public speaking. His tact must reflect his position as Harvard’s president. This current bout of criticism, though, borders on ridiculous. Our president shouldn’t have to publish transcripts of every speech he gives just to ensure he isn’t radically misquoted or misunderstood. And our president shouldn’t get dragged through the press for every vaguely contentious remark he makes. No public figure, least of all the president of an academic institution, should...
After an introduction by Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton K. Anthony Appiah, Soyinka himself took the podium. Soyinka read “A Digression on the Purpose of Accident,” an excerpt from a memoir-in-progress he expects to publish next year...
Still, it seems worthwhile to stop for a moment and reflect on all of this: If eight or ten years ago you had told the average college student that in the future, millions of people just like them were going to publish startling facts about their lives—essentially, everything from a traditional diary (the kind we used protect with a lock and key)—I think they would have been surprised. Indeed, I think most of us would be surprised to think now about how much information we readily give out with the explicit understanding that...
...with notices from mercenaries, some less discreet than others (MERC FOR HIRE, advertised a man named Dan. NEED WORK FAST). Gung-ho types who apply directly to the magazine are warned that enlisting soldiers of fortune within the U.S. is against the law. Brown maintains, however, that he can publish the ads because he is merely acting as a conduit...
...lofty task. “I honestly believe it is the greatest show that has ever existed on television,” writes producer Michael H. Schur ’97, former president of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. “The entire American ‘Office’ staff were huge huge huge fans—and we realized, early on, that the only way to approach our daunting job, was to just forget that the original existed. We tried simply...