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...self-entitled, sophomoric pranksters falling back on high principles when it suits them.” Student “artists” of the snow-phallus variety have hijacked the meaning of free expression, by relying on it to justify obscenity for obscenity’s own sake...
...emphasize Ivy athletics hurts the league’s top programs a lot more than it does a Columbia, which has competitiveness issues beyond its head coaches and which, should it decide to fire Hill, will all the more appear to be acting for appearance’s sake. Armond Hill may or may not be the best person to lead Columbia basketball, but if he’s not, it shouldn’t be simply because of the shock value of the number in the school’s win column...
Laakso remembered how, after outgrowing the program, he and his siblings would flip through the channels and watch together for old times’ sake...
...need to write a magnum opus, for the sake of your sanity, keep it under the 210-pages of this columnist’s thesis. Editing takes approximately ten times as long as writing. It takes me a full day to read my thesis, let alone fix all those horrendous pages that I wrote while tipsy in the middle of the night trying to meet deadlines. Just as great books can be short and sweet (my favorite book, The Lover, by Marguerette Duras, is 90 small, double-spaced pages), so can great theses...
...were dean, I might have said to him, ‘John, for God’s sake, take a look at what you’re doing, you’re making a fool of yourself, and if you believe that you’re onto something of fantastic import... get some help from your colleagues,’” Relman said...