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...Congratulations” confronts the hubris on the other side of this cliché. The group is now successful and, having been through their years of pretending, are receiving the praise they deserve. If this image of the band is invoked ironically, then what does that say about them? Apparently, that they hate what they’re doing and what they’ve become. While this interpretation seems far too extreme, a sense of trouble and uncertainty hovers over the song—the culmination of a similar uncertainty apparent throughout the record. "Congratulations?...
Student group leaders say they are still working out the logistics of their programs and are waiting for more information from the College before they can fully plan for the last week of J-Term...
That is not to say that the directors of undergraduate studies in each department have no valuable contribution to add to the election process. PBK should welcome more information about the quality of each candidate, not less. After all, directors of each department are the people who are most familiar with their respective concentrations and, as such, can offer key information concerning the difficulty of each candidate’s course-load. Still, while this input is significant and deserves to play a role in PBK decisions, the value of student-sought faculty recommendations should not be understated in relation...
...say that people “like” Wilco’s live shows is an understatement, but these quietly confident alternative rockers are masters of the understatement. In one particularly striking example, Cline admitted that he rarely practices guitar. “If I practiced every day I’d be so much better,” he said. “Just sitting down every day in the morning and going through some kind of studies I’d be ‘god-like’ at this point.” However, between...
...Which is not to say his successors didn't try. Franklin D. Roosevelt came closest. The total number of Supreme Court Justices had changed six times since Washington's days in office, parking at nine in 1869. With his New Deal on the line, though, Roosevelt tried to make room on the bench for his supporters by claiming the right to appoint a new Justice - up to a max of 15 - whenever a sitting one turned 70 and refused to retire. His infamous "court packing" scheme never passed, but he did get all nine nominees he floated during his three...