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Last week, the New York Times argued that the scholar-athlete, who could perform as well in the classroom as on the field, is a relic of the past—and one to be sorely missed. Athletes, unlike fine musicians or writers, simply cannot “add to the intellectual and cultural stew that makes college campuses exciting.” (To be honest, I doubt I was accepted for this particular reason, either.) Pointing to data collected by James Shulman and William Bowen, the Times dismissed any contributions athletes might make at a school: they self-segregate...
...learned a bitter lesson—or perhaps it has not learned it, since so many continue to prate about the crimes of Israel, the innocence of Palestine, and the need to end the famous “cycle of violence.” This rhetoric is a relic of an earlier time, when the sufferings of the Palestinian people—their poverty, their existence as a subject people, their stifled aspirations of independence—were rightly laid at Israel’s door...
...comes so easily and devoid of complication. In many other places, patriotism is best kept hidden or trotted out only on trivial occasions like soccer games. In Britain members of the intelligentsia would not be seen dead, my dear, with a Union Jack--unless it were some campy '60s relic of Carnaby Street. In France the Tricolor flies from every town hall--but I have never seen one outside my French friends' houses. If you lived through the horrors of Europe's last century, patriotic fervor is a dish that comes a little too highly seasoned with memories of nationalism...
Harvard’s cyclotron is a relic...
...road to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East and elsewhere is long and difficult. But that road, albeit the one less traveled by, is the only one worth taking. Violence begets only violence, as Arafat should have learned by now. Such gunboat diplomacy is a sad relic of the past; Arafat and his ilk should not be allowed to impose it on the future...