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...fight has dragged on, and here we have Steven Weinberg, one of the most celebrated scientists of the twentieth century, weighing in. And by “weighing in” I mean precisely what I say??aside from a few moments of genuine hilarity, the overall heaviness of his writing makes his work difficult reading. Which is not to say that the book is not interesting; it is, but it requires a dogged determination to finish and a willingness to deal with large amounts of irrelevancy...
...goodness. I could say what they’d hopefully say??hopefully they’d say I was a good kisser and that I was very respectful...
Still, the Onion’s genius lies in its ability to stand on the edge of appropriate, look at our everyday lives and say the thing that we do not say??and they succeed with flying colors...
...eloquent a statement of the University’s values as any Commencement address (one reason undergraduates were short-sighted to complain about the tower’s renovation). Stripped of its campus, conducted in an office park or a strip mall—or over the Internet, say??Harvard, and the education it provides, would lose part of its soul...
This secrecy is paramount, University administrators say??the pool of candidates for the presidency would be diminished immediately if contenders knew they would face public comment and scrutiny. So with the resources and money of the University at its disposal, the search committee went to great lengths to avoid the public eye. But now, in dozens of interviews with search committee members, candidates, administrators, faculty and staff over the year, a clearer picture begins to emerge of the process that led to the turning point: the Feb. 25 interview...