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...homespun originality and pith. How to account for the dreck produced by American students? I don’t think it’s our fault; it’s what they do to us. Faulkner said that writing is about killing your darlings. When we write papers, we slaughter our ancestors and submit ourselves to sterilization. I wish someone had taken me aside during Freshman Week and told me then what I have since learned the hard way: that the fundamental principle of paper-writing consists in saying things that sound vaguely familiar, so that the person grading...
...applaud TIME for printing the words of Marine Lieut. Colonel Bryan McCoy as his battalion easily routed Iraqi fighters outside the town of Kut [WITH THE TROOPS, April 14]. McCoy said, "Let's quit pussyfooting and call it what it is. It's murder, it's slaughter, it's clubbing baby harp seals." Some may believe the antiwar protests should have stopped once the fighting started, for fear of demoralizing American troops, but I am more concerned about the morale of those who will spend the rest of their lives dealing with the horrors of war. The suffering on both...
...said that the departures of Joseph Weiler and Anne-Marie Slaughter had created certain gaps in our curriculum, which we would make it a priority to fill. I did not say or suggest, because it would be absurd to say or suggest, that the international program was “languishing” (to use The Crimson’s word). Harvard’s international and comparative law faculty is the strongest in the nation; the range of courses and activities we offer relating to these fields has no equal in legal education; and Bill Alford, our Associate Dean...
...School’s international law program has languished since Anne-Marie Slaughter, one of its premier scholars, left to head Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson Center for International Affairs last year, she said...
...hardly matters whether he means the 20th Century—with genocides in Europe, Russia, Cambodia, and Rwanda—or the 29 months of this century. This looting was not even the crime of the week. (That dubious award might go to the slaughter of three hundred and fifty people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.) Hundreds of Iraqi civilians died in the invasion of Iraq, not to mention the thousands who disappeared under Saddam Hussein’s despotic rule. Crime of the century? There is nothing poetic about this hyperbole; it is an outright insult...