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...harm's way shows how empty and rhetorical this declaration of support has become. It's not that anybody around here doesn't "support the troops" - whatever that means. It's that the only reason this gets said is to block the accusation that, by opposing the war, you somehow oppose the troops - once again, whatever that means...
...India's gossip page editors have pounced upon them as proof of the widening rift between Bollywood's reigning king and prince. In the past few days both actors have gone out of their way to say that they respect each other's work and remain friendly, but it somehow seems too late: like all the most ridiculous celebrity stories the Big B v. SRK brouhaha has taken on a life of its own. In a wonderful illustration of globalization's reach, even U.S. satirist Stephen Colbert has helped fuel the dispute by featuring Bachchan and Khan - "the Indian Robert...
...even if the institutional conservatism of professorial politics yields to such reform, the culture of teaching at Harvard can advance only as far as its culture of learning. So long as students demand that student-faculty solidarity expand in place of self-sufficiency, that four years of learning somehow be handed down from on high, any improvement in the quality of instruction available will be lost in the shallows of a passive education. School has an uncanny way of getting in the way of an education; while any effort toward uniting the two is a step forward, to forget that...
Currently, card checks are used in some unionization drives—Harvard security guards were unionized under this process—and according to supporters, these public petitions are somehow less open to intimidation. In the words of the AFL-CIO, card check “reduces conflict, coercion and harassment...
Indicative of this gender-heavy focus is a recent column in The Crimson by Christopher B. Lacaria, "The Apotheosis of Doctor Faust," in which his attempt to evaluate Faust’s selection lingers solely on the gender issue. Lacaria suggests that Faust is somehow unqualified to lead the University because of her academic focus on women’s studies, comparing her obviously feminine position as head of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies to former President Lawrence H. Summers’ supposedly masculine post as Treasury Secretary. The column essentially pits masculinity against femininity, and, to no one?...