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...ROSS G. DOUTHAT...
...Colin Powell and Wendy Walker Whitworth. The top producer for Larry King's prime-time chat show on CNN, Whitworth had just finished the cake and champagne at her mother's 80th birthday celebration in Chicago early last week when her ever present beeper began chirping. The message: Call Ross Perot...
Platt Thompson, United We Stand's executive director in California, claims that since Perot launched the new party, "volunteers are calling in from everywhere." He adds, "They realize this time that it's not just about Ross Perot." Even some activists disenchanted with Perot agree. "This is a redeeming act on his part," says Phil Madsen, an ex-Perot worker and a founder of the thriving Minnesota Independence Party who runs a draft-Powell cell in that state...
...whisper about your prof behind his back, bash her anonymously on a blog, but you have to admit it takes balls to attach your name to an article slamming him in a national publication. Ross Douthat ’02 calls out specific Harvard professors in “The Truth About Harvard,” an article in the March Atlantic Monthly that zeroes in on Harvard’s Core courses as inconsequential, calling them “maddeningly specific and often defiantly obscure...
...biggest problem is that these fields have come to almost monopolize the attention of Harvard students, generating a thoroughly anti-academic, anti-intellectual attitude. In a recent article in the Atlantic Monthly called “The Truth About Harvard,” Ross G. Douthat ’02 argues that one of Harvard’s biggest flaws is its failure to provide “a general education, a liberal arts education to future doctors and bankers and lawyers and diplomats.” Douthat has it all backwards. The real failure belongs to the students, many...