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Saturday's performance was satisfying, but, despite the elegant conducting of Music Director Jon Russell '00, one of the most versatile musicians on campus, the overture was rocky enough to have my seatmate, who is blessed and cursed with perfect pitch, squirming in pain. This warped sound abated in a...
The lawsuits filed against tobacco companies side step this obstacle by pretending to address the long-term effects of tobacco products rather than production. Such pretenses rely on the faulty assumption that the two are legally separable. Because long term health costs are taken into consideration when the FDA establishes...
Second, the group deems the advertisement's claims "silly" and "false." Granted, an unsupported claim that the world's population can be housed in Texas seems "silly." But as anyone who read the piece would have understood, this was simply rhetorical hyperbole used to refute over-population arguments in favor...
Second, the group deems the advertisement's claims "silly" and "false." Granted, an unsupported claim that the world's population can be housed in Texas seems "silly." But as anyone who read the piece would have understood, this was simply rhetorical hyperbole used to refute overpopulation arguments in favor of...
The caution here is one that applies to utopian visions generally: perfect is always imperfect, as it must be, and imperfect--a world of disappointments and surprises--is as good as it gets. It is hard to know whether McDonough recognizes this. He is in the first blush of success...