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Harvard has been known as a serious, sober institution, and remains so to an extent, Kirby said in September...
...What on earth has happened to American conservatism? It used to be a reliably dour movement, a sober restraint upon the wishful thinking of mushy-minded liberals. But it has slipped, somehow, from realism to utopian fantasy. On the domestic side, there is the sugarplum delusion of endless tax cuts and untrammeled government spending. In foreign policy, there is a wildly idealistic pro-democracy jihad. (Iraq will be the first of many dominoes to fall, it is said...
...literary map somewhere between Cheeverville and Updike Corners, where adultery is in the air like chimney smoke. Daniel brings with him his girlfriend Kate, a writer who has acid intelligence, a 4-year-old daughter whom Daniel adores and an accelerating problem with drink. Kate is still sober enough to realize that her boyfriend has been coldcocked by love for Iris, a genial, married grad student and mother. For good measure, Iris is African American, which means that once she and Daniel are in full swing, they will be not just treacherous mates but also load bearers of the burdens...
...head for the door. Several Faculty members complained of “impulse shopping,” as if undergraduates were selecting their classes with the same criteria of flash and pizzazz they might use to pick out a new pair of jeans. These professors envision a more sober, a more reflective course selection, where the professor’s annoying habit of inserting the phrase “as it were” into every other sentence isn’t nearly as important as your deep and abiding interest in biblical history. They believe that when it comes...
...this website wants us to be skeptical about the war, but it doesn’t go far enough in making people think critically about the conflict. Sure, it mocks the oil aspect of the war, but this lampoon adds little substance to the debate. The way to elicit sober reflection about the conflict is to force every American to bet on these four fundamental propositions...