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...half-empty. Mixing metaphors obfuscates the point but—to the rescue—the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals, gets right down to it. “Larry Summers is many things but he’s not stupid,” Gomes says??an observation made in the context of rather informed daydreaming about the future of Harvard College. Gomes, with formidable institutional memory and a charming interest in Harvardiana, breezes backward more than 25 years in his memory and proclaims that the future is literally in the hands of students...
Budnitz has always had a sharp wit. She drew cartoons for The Crimson and the Lampoon—“for a long time, I thought I wanted to be a political cartoonist,” she says??poking fun at everything from pompous professors to foul-tasting dining hall food. One 1993 drawing depicts a little girl sheepishly approaching a group of three schoolboys. “Can I play?” she asks. “Yes! No! Maybe!” they reply. “Come back next year...
...Valentine says he sees many benefits of the new Central Square. “Major construction’s going on, good things are coming into Boston,” he says??and he appreciates that, even with the changes, Boston’s historical heritage lives...
...have to make sure we’re giving seniors a variety of options,” Sullivan says??including affordable assisted living and nursing homes...
...misguided. I can even believe that millions of people suffer from a profound misunderstanding of their own faith. But what I cannot believe is that there is no connection between the practice of Islam—no matter how divorced that practice is from what the Koran really says??and the fact that so many Muslims harbor so much hatred of United States. The “pulse of the people,” as the crown prince put it, provides too much evidence to the contrary...