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...more thing. I have heard this scenario as a justification for your refusal to allow universal access: a Leverett House student is being chased across campus by a calculator-brandishing Kirkland premed whose chemistry lab report she just jumped dumped Powerade on. The Leverett student hurriedly swipes into her building and slams the door behind her, safe. A success story for keycard balkanization, right? Not quite. Is she really a Leverett resident? How do you know she didn't just transfer there because it was easier to steal bikes from the racks outside that particular House? Maybe letting...
...such commentator is Stephen J. Greenblatt, a professor of English whose work focuses on Renaissance literature and culture. Greenblatt recently wrote an op-ed for The New York Times in which he compared the Starr report to a work of great literature...
According to Greenblatt, Americans have been comfortable with graphic descriptions of sex in fictional works for many years. But the Starr report marks a first because the acts it exposes are real...
...Starr report might be out ahead of what people are willing to tolerate, but its where we've been moving," Greenblatt says. "Americans have been moving for some years toward an increasingly invasive view toward people's private lives...
...article he first submitted to The New York Times, he says, hinged on one particularly graphic passage from the Starr report. But editors told him they would not reproduce the excerpt in his column, even though they had already published it as part of the full text of the report...