Word: sharpness
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...morning of April 9, at 8:30 sharp, 257 residents of Zeguo township converged on a schoolhouse to decide the future of their community. According to the rules of the event, they had been randomly selected to represent a microcosm of their town of 240,000, which lies in a prosperous manufacturing area in China's Zhejiang province. Each had completed a questionnaire on local affairs as well as a poll in which they rated the desirability of 30 government-proposed infrastructure projects. Some giggled as they pinned on pink badges labeling them "popular-will representatives." But most fell silent...
...disturbing the students who attended the panel and those who spoke, the hecklers directed their ire at the wrong target. Many students are sensitive to the concerns of CIA/DHS critics. Attendee Nathan A. Sharp ’08 told The Crimson: “I hate torture as much as the next protestor…but the best way to address the humanitarian disregard or the incompetence of the CIA is not by harassing their recruiters.” Trying to prevent good and fair-minded students from entering the CIA or DHS, does not seem to be the most...
...taking cover, instead fulfilling their long-latent fantasies. The story catalogs beautiful glimpses of life in an Edenic state of anticipated death, recurring with each subsequent government MAD “fire drill.” But the scenes of the president are too ridiculous to operate as sharp satire; the character is too goofy and the story mocking in ways too unoriginal to be admitted...
...general education committee—which includes academic heavyweights like political philosopher Michael Sandel, English department star Louis Menand, and University President Larry Summers—wrestled with questions of pedagogical philosophy, Mahan’s thesis evolved into a sharp critique of Harvard’s undergraduate education...
...Gordon remains sharp and reflective. “It’s a whole new world now,” he says, ambling along the cafeteria line. “We were always waited on in the dining halls...