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Last week, the Undergraduate Council (UC) circulated a declaration of grievances remonstrating against the cold shoulder the administration has turned to students recently. While we take issue with the petulant and self-righteous tone with which the declaration was written, we wholeheartedly sympathize with many of its complaints. The Harvard administration’s chronic deafness to student voices has alarmingly limited undergraduate input into the conduct and affairs of our University. As students, we do not demand that our opinions be put into immediate effect, but that our counsel be heard and given some degree of credence...
...there is an antidote to hypocrisy, it's humility: just admitting the possibility of weakness can be a source of strength. As any number of fallen icons can testify, the arrogant and the righteous have the most trouble finding forgiveness when the mistake, duly confessed, is their...
...This time they've got a story about a city policeman exiled to an ostensibly law-abiding Gloucestershire town. Officer Nick Angel (Pegg) is just too good, too tough and righteous for his London superiors. So he's "promoted" to a post in Sandford, where the crime rate is minimal and everyone radiates bonhomie - except for some of Nick's fellow officers, who think the by-the-book cop is too suspicious of local customs. As the avuncular chief (Jim Broadbent) tells him, "You come from a city where there's danger round every corner, and it's driven...
...have only ourselves to blame for these sterling examples of modern minstrelsy—and we know it: What other reason for the self-righteous tone of our “outrage” over the Rutgers incident, and our silence on so many others? With each progressive volley against Imus’s comes an equally adamant “not I!” So either we let our outrage translate into a genuine turn towards higher-minded discourse, or we should stop all the preaching...
...fitted with a machine gun, which she uses to mow down acres of the undead. Death Proof, Tarantino's contribution, presents two trios of high-adrenaline chicks menaced by a psycho stunt driver. The women in both entries love guns and cars and don't mind using them for righteous vengeance and reckless thrills...