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...Dubya's unexamined life - his pursuit of devastation policies with such messianic self-assurance - is not worth filming. Yes, the tragic hero usually comes to realize his crippling flaws, but maybe the greatest sin of a powerful man is in never, ever doubting himself. W. gives Bush a climactic wrinkle of copelessness, but the movie is mostly content to motor on familiar tracks. Like its central character, it seems never to have questioned itself about its mission or even asked if it had one. For this normally crazy-brilliant auteur, the last and lasting...
...wrong?" Uscher-Pines asks. Hell no, is her answer. So press on with complete confidence that marriage is The Right Thing To Do. Too many women find themselves "becoming a wife before you actually have a husband," she adds. And don't let your friends tell you the hot pursuit of a ring is antifeminist; actually, it's all about empowerment. And, somehow, the environment. "Basically, if you aren't selfish enough to get married for yourself, get married for poor, feeble Mother Earth," she writes. "She's begging...
...prophet of pop hedonism"-TIME's phrasing in 1967-you can't deny the guy his place in the American canon. And in Mr. Playboy, biographer Steven Watts argues that Hef's influence extends well beyond the bedroom. By framing sex as an All-American aspiration-as worthy a pursuit as good wine or flashy cars-the famous free-love evangelist scrambled our social norms, "[loosening ]old-fashioned moral strictures on one of the most powerful of human urges...
...continues to fall and central banks race to cut interest rates, the future of all institutions, especially nonprofits, is hazy. Because of this, Harvard needs philanthropy—particularly for scientific research—now more than ever. Donations are crucial for the development of higher education and the pursuit of scientific knowledge, as the world continues the struggle against disease and poverty. With the pressures of undergraduate life, it is sometimes hard to recognize the unseen actors that sustain Harvard. When an alumnus bestows so much on the university, it cannot go unrecognized. Because of this charity, researchers, students...
...conservative on campus. How beautiful is this house of learning—the idyllic ivied quads, the scholarly seriousness, the august history of a three-century-old institution. But it has since been despoiled. Traditions usurped, curricula disemboweled, and the noble goal of all intellectual endeavors—the pursuit of truth—unceremoniously renounced. The Ark has been carried away and reposed in Babylon...