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...School students have often been too risk-averse or too unwilling to take chances in the past, Kagan said—especially in a past when major law firms offered job security and six-figure salaries. As a result, the economic turmoil might have the beneficial side-effect of causing graduates to think through what career choices would be most fulfilling, she said. Kagan extended two other pieces of tried and true advice to the degree candidates—to cultivate personal relationships, and to learn to listen to others in addition to simply arguing with them...
...territories and religious conversion. We have long moved past this historical stage. Updated theories of cultural imperialism focus on what Balachandra Rajan calls a new tripod of commerce, culture and consent—reflecting the progression from territorial conquest to the conquest of minds—a side-effect of globalization...
...affirmation, but “Fur” makes the duo seem obsessed with weirdness—less as a statement of self-identity than as something that is valuable for its own sake. But “weird for weird’s sake” has the side-effect of demonizing the average for the sin of simply being normal while neglecting just how strange, and beautiful, everyday life can often be. Bottom Line: Don’t let the film’s pretensions fool you: “Fur” is a predictable and empty...
...After clearing out the mysterious fluid, the rest of the operation was routine, as was his follow up. The knee got better. I asked every oncologist I knew if they ever heard of this as a side-effect of chemotherapy. Some of the chemo they were giving Charlie was cherry-red - the thought was that somehow the tissue lining the knee (synovium, that normally makes the tan joint fluid) had been taking the red chemo molecules and changing them into something fluorescent green. This was just a guess though - the red stuff doesn't go green in any known situations...
...military is unfortunate, but it is the reality that universities must face for the foreseeable future. Harvard should be prepared to work with this reality, in recognition of a broader national interest. Not only is realism the right policy to adopt in principle, it also has the happy side-effect of hastening the end of unreasonable discrimination against gays in the military. If our objections to recruiters are genuinely based on a concern for gay rights, we do those rights a greater service by welcoming recruiters back to campus...