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...consider extending the course over a full year or instituting “flavored” sections, in which subjects in the course are more deeply pursued. Finally, if tenured faculty cannot be found to satisfy the demand and need for such a course with enthusiasm, there is no shame in turning to hiring lecturers who are genuinely interested in providing this type of broad introduction to western civilization...
Every week, mailboxes across Harvard fill with shame. It is a shame that comes with a glossy cover—a shame that goes unread night after night because there is too much homework to do. The shame piles up by the side of the bed, staring us in the face every time we accidentally wake up in the morning. The shame’s name is The New Yorker; the shame is a reminder of our intellectual impotence and poor time-management skills. The cartoons are the only thing we read; we do it even though it makes...
...have learned a tough lesson, and it has been a lot tougher for those tens of thousands of dead, innocent Iraqis and several thousand killed and injured American soldiers than for a few humiliated pundits. The correct response to that is not more spin but a real sense of shame and sorrow that so many have died because of errors made by their superiors, and by writers like me. All this is true, and it needs to be faced. But it is also true that we are where we are. And true that there was no easy alternative three years...
...final result won’t be that stark, but the Tigers should finish with a two possession cushion.COLUMBIA (11-14, 4-8) AT DARTMOUTH (5-20, 3-9)The loser of this one will likely end up in the league’s basement, which is a shame considering how both teams have turned it around during the second half of the Ivy season. The Lions are just 1-4 on the road, and the huge collapse at home in the second half against Yale might have killed any momentum that Columbia had. Take Dartmouth in a squeaker.PENN...
...Iraq for Thanksgiving, this hardly seems too complex a task. In actuality, there can be little doubt that the whole event was consciously choreographed to appease the myriad local, national, and even international television crews filming the landing at Hanscom Air Force Base. It’s truly a shame that government officials are hard at work spending our tax dollars to transform reality into Hollywood blockbusters and, in the process, pampering alleged criminals like Neil Entwistle. Steve C. Bartenstein ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a government concentrator in Lowell House...