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...Marxist will tell you, real solidarity can only exist within class groups: We have more in common with our class peers, with whom we will share the whole four year Harvard experience. It makes sense for the College’s housing to reflect that fact, instead of introducing unnecessary barriers to the groups and friendships we have formed freshman year...
...1970s experimental video art in Poland, and there you have it.”The exhibit collects works solicited from local artists in each host city, which explains its somewhat quirky contents. As a result of the collection’s organic growth process, its contents do not reflect a “Who’s Who” of the video art world. Nam June Paik, for instance, is nowhere to be found.But in spite of the esoteric subject matter, the gallery has seen a steady flow of visitors, and Lambert-Beatty is pleased with...
Although money is necessary to win a modern campaign, its influence is easily over-estimated. Most successful candidates raise more money than their competitors, but most donors only want to give to a winning candidate, and therefore the fundraising disparity could simply reflect donors’ risk-aversion. It is a chicken or egg question: The same qualities that lead to electoral success—charisma, policies, and experience—also lead to increased donations, so it isn’t clear whether candidates win because they get more money, or vice-versa...
Moreover, as many have noted, if money does buy victory, Americans are selling their votes on the cheap. The total spending on the next presidential election is expected to exceed a billion dollars, but, in comparison, Americans will spend $10 billion on pornography next year. These figures either reflect the absurd ease of buying political success, or (more likely) the minimal impact of donations on election results...
...Knowles acknowledges that the size of department faculties should—at the very least—remotely reflect the size of their student bodies. He writes, “we must obviously be responsive to the pressures of student enrollment, if only to ensure that some groups of colleagues are not much more taxed than others.” This “obvious” point is thenceforth ignored...