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...speechwriter during the past seven years before stepping down last year. “Gerson, while he doesn’t have the title of governor, is as influential as anyone we have around here,” Burns said. IOP Director Jeanne Shaheen said the IOP tries to select visiting fellows whose interests are topical to current issues. According to Shaheen, Whitman’s trip has been in the works for over a year, while the IOP started trying to attract Gerson after he resigned from his speechwriter post. “As soon as we heard that...
...Selling our soul, prima facie, can be worth it—as long as we get the right price. The best way to do so is to have an auction. Unpalatable, perhaps, but certainly preferable to the status quo. Harvard already more or less sells admission to a select few, but the process is clothed in a variety of face-saving guises, all of them needlessly inefficient. Legacy preference, for example, gives the children of alumni what the admissions office website calls “a further look.” This keeps alumni happy, and ideally generous, and gives...
...next year, confrontations over Turkey's secular constitution are likely to grow. How will European governments respond to the claims of the religiously observant for protection? There is no single pattern applicable to all countries, but some - Germany, France and the Netherlands, for example - are now planning to help select and train "homegrown" imams instead of relying on a supply of less acculturated clerics from nations such as Turkey and Algeria. European politicians are beginning to recognize, as the German Interior Minister said recently, that moderate Muslims are the best possible defense against religious extremism and its violent wing...
...York Times—eager to read an in-depth feature about this month’s offerings at the Museum of Modern Art—but find instead a rave review about an opening in Berlin. The college student who can barely afford an online Times Select subscription surely cannot hop a plane to Paris/London/Bilbao—why must Nicholas Ouroussoff tempt me so? Like the unnaturally blue bagels left beside the toaster, so too is the Times’ Arts section rejected when they insist on publishing about inaccessible European shows. But you, my reader beleaguered...
...each other to seduce a washed-out ’90s rapper.There are few reality shows that are genuinely ridiculous enough that there’s no need to make fun of them. VH1’s “Flavor of Love” is one of these select few. It aspires to be a dating competition in the style of “The Bachelor”—what it realizes is a giant, prolonged orgy for Flavor Flav, formerly of Public Enemy, with 20 women whom he calls by nicknames like Bubblez, Hoopz, and Miss...