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...Nietzsche” or “post-modernism” in regular conversation. Both small children and old people make me very uncomfortable. And for the life of me, I cannot understand the fascination that so many of my friends have with that live video of little puppies.In short, I am the anti-Disney.So when somebody played me “Year 3000,” by the Jonas Brothers, I was ready to rail against it. Those Jonas boys looked too happy singing that “not much has changed, but they live underwater.” What...
...have an obligation, in short, to continue to carry out Lowell’s vision (crafted as he struggled against “the spirit of the age, which is materialistic and plutocratic”) and ensure that Harvard’s nearly 80-year-old experiment in House life continues, updated and energized...
...Poterba, Frankel, and committee member Robert E. Hall of Stanford said that policies should be aimed at creating a large stimulus to aid the ailing economy. “Many people are saying across the political spectrum that a good-old fashioned stimulus is what we need in the short term,” Frankel said. “I think it’s very important that [fiscal policies] be well targeted and well designed and do the minimum damage to the long-term fiscal health.” But Frankel cautioned policymakers not to repeat the mistakes...
...school way of raising money and the Army knows it, so this year, the charity is supplementing its famous Red Kettle Campaign with a Twitter feed, a Facebook widget, and a cell phone text message donation program in addition to its recently introduced online kettle program. The Army, short on volunteer bell ringers, even pays some people to coax passersby into donating their spare change for the organization's causes, which include disaster relief, soup kitchens, drug and alcohol counseling and homeless shelters...
...Georgia runoff, however, is one key political celebrity short - much to the detriment of Democratic challenger Jim Martin. President-elect Barack Obama did not make an appearance in Georgia. He did record a radio ad for Martin and robo-calls, but that's all. And now Democrats fear that the surge in black voters that made Martin competitive on Nov. 4 may not materialize on Dec. 2. "It may be that for some voters the real election was a few weeks ago and that this is just details," says Merle Black, a political science professor at Emory University. "Obama...