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With a new general education scheme in sight, but a lame duck Core Curriculum still looming over the College, Harvard students find themselves in a rather awkward position. We know the Core’s days are numbered, but the changes are happening too slowly—and too unpredictably—to realistically plan for life under general education. So, alas, we must resign ourselves to being the last generation of students to live by the rules of the Core—but we shouldn’t have to. For many years now, students have been able...
...interviews with top generals and Pentagon officials are stunning, and reveal a war that, horrifyingly, had literally no end-goal, let alone a strategy for achieving that goal. To this day, the war has no end-goal, and therefore can have no “end” in sight...
...themselves. The show, with its sly mix of highbrow and no-brow humor, of university wit and pratfalling physicality, must have seemed strange enough to U.K. viewers. But for Americans there were extra layers of mystification: the BBC in-jokes, the references to Brit politicians and seaside resorts, the sight of grown men speaking in shrill voices and wearing women's clothing. (They'd dress as a madame a lot.) The insular Englishness of the enterprise made it, for us, something completely different. We loved the heedless risk, the show's musk of comic danger...
...tendency was to stop the action and question it, impudently and irrelevantly, in terms scientific ("Where'd Arthur get his coconuts?") or political ("Who elected Him king?"), before abandoning the sketch altogether. Python skits programmed their own self-destruction; they'd be aborted midway with no punch line in sight. Indeed, MP&HG ends with Arthur and his Knights cantering out of the Dark Ages into modern Britain, where the film sputters brazenly to its close. But a Broadway show moves irrevocably toward cues for applause, either at the end of a scene or for the climax of a song...
...Fast-forward to the present day. What lies behind the front door? The nuclear family is not dead - some 29% of E.U. households still include dependent children - but the age gap between parents and children is widening. Mothers with old faces and young children are now a common sight on the high street. The average age of women giving birth in the E.U. hovers at just below 30, up from 27.4 in 1991. That average falls between two distant poles: teenage pregnancies, which continue to rise in several countries, and a swelling contingent of graying progenitrices. In Spain...