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...yesterday’s meeting, Computer Science Professor Margo I. Seltzer solicited questions and comments from the Faculty regarding the most recent version of the self-study report required for the University’s review for reaccreditation in October...
It’s also a platform for narcissism. Users often go beyond the standard post about location to get creative with their 140 characters. I find the other half of tweets to be mainly composed of rants (customer service, Twitter site downtime, self-injury) and random introspection...
...introspection, on the other hand, are where the problem kicks in. Public Twitter user jquaglia, for example, writes, “Do you ever have one of those days when you feel like every wishbone you pull breaks the wrong way?” Deep, man, just deep. Such self-indulgence has always existed on angsty teenage blogs like Livejournal, but now it is condensed and made absurd by its brevity. Speaking to no one in particular, about nothing in particular, in a space so short that nothing possibly meaningful can be said reeks of vanity. It boils down...
...glimpses these heights. It’s the only one.In 2007, Johnson received the National Book Award for his six hundred-page Vietnam War epic, “Tree of Smoke.” Last year, he serialized “Nobody Move,” a self-proclaimed “noir novel,” in four parts—each corresponding to about 50 widely spaced pages—in “Playboy” magazine. At passing glance, the novel has all the trappings of a small joke told at the expense of a literary...
...Asia’s oldest democracies seemingly comes to a dark, bloody conclusion, a number of questions about the war in Sri Lanka and the ideological banners under which it marched come to the forefront: What is the value of a democracy if the price is self-determination? What is the value of territorial control if the price is social cohesion? What is the value of a national political unity if the price is a national political identity? What is the value of power if the price is human life...