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Take the weeklong Nor’easter that hit our campus in October. As I’m sure we all noticed, the slant of the wind and rain made it impossible not to get soaked during the long walk from building to building. I see no reason why we had to spend two days sitting in lecture with our wet jeans plastered to our shivering thighs when we have $25.9 billion at our disposal to protect us from inconveniences like the weather. If the United States of America—which doesn’t even have an endowment?...
North Korea seems to have taken over the space in America's collective consciousness formerly occupied by the planet Mongo. Created by the brilliant cartoonist Alex Raymond, the distant Mongo, as ruled by the diabolical Ming the Merciless, a jaundiced and slant-eyed despot, perpetually plotted our destruction until Flash Gordon foiled its schemes. Substitute Kim Jong-Il for Ming, and nuclear weapons for invading spaceships, and you have a pretty good approximation of America's poor sense of an extremely closed and apparently hostile other world. How appropriate, then, that another kind of comic would be the most readable...
...more news and information that consumers can assimilate, the better they are, the more informed they are. People may be informed through the political slant they feel comfortable with, but they are well informed. I don't see how anybody could complain about having more information...
...Medical Imagination,” and “Science & Society”) seem to engage in scientific reading and writing. Especially considering Harvard’s recent push for greater work in the sciences, the first-year writing course should offer more classes with a science slant. Finally, students should also have the option to take an Expos class that involves work in different broader areas, including the Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, and the Humanities. It will be difficult to make these classes to be theme-based, but the opportunity for students to experience a greater breadth of writing...
...simply put white actors in "yellowface." The term is a misnomer. Whereas a white actor playing a black was obliged to dab cork to darken the visage, a white playing an "Oriental" character didn't change face color but applied spirit gum to give the eyes a higher slant...