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...error occurred while processing this directive]At the end of a long day of meetings, sometimes the last thing a business traveler wants to do is change into sweats and head down to the hotel gym or tackle the local running trails. But exercise becomes that much harder to shirk with a Travel Trainer ($89.90 from travtrainer.com) beckoning reproachfully from the corner of the room. Perfect for the harried road warrior, this portable exercise kit fits into a 56-cm bag and comprises a fitness ball, exercise mat and resistance bands (pulled taut they form the basis of muscle-building...
...somewhere in the middle of the dealmaking, the petitions, and the unfortunate ad hominem attacks, the broader student body was never really all that informed about what was going on. They knew that one plan was bad (self-involved UC’ers trying to save their seats and shirk their responsibilities) and that the other plan was good (a more effective UC), but largely because a few people on campus who actually follow this sort of thing told them...
...going to try to shirk the blame here, not for Viswanathan nor for my generation. It takes courage and hard work to go against the prevailing grain of corporate society, to trust your instinct and passion when the powers of the market demand otherwise. Opal Mehta, too, can tell us about parental pressure (whether or not she could do it in her own words remains to be seen). Nobody I know at Harvard can completely tune out the temptations of cash or the security and immunity that a Harvard education seems to guarantee now and in the future...
...lose the goose metaphor. This was an academic 9/11, this was an act of spiritual assassination, an assault on free speech, intellectual inquiry, and ideology-free academic standards aimed at the heart of American scholarship. We are Manhattan now; and we cannot rest from this mental fight. If we shirk it, then William F. Buckley, Jr., is right that it’s better to be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than by the faculty of Harvard...
...built on a culture of accountability. Culpability for a calamity like Abu Ghraib must flow all the way up the chain of command. Beginning with Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, the ranking officers and administrators who failed to properly oversee the prison should not be permitted to shirk from the stain Abu Ghraib has cast over the U.S. armed forces. For this reason, we called for the secretary’s resignation in May 2004—a demand that has not been assuaged or tempered by the passage of over a year...