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...particularly disappointing to see Harvard professors, such as the 19 members of the FAS Standing Committee on Women, attacking Summers by politicizing his academic and speculative remarks and drawing potentially misleading implications from them. Surely they would not prefer to be treated likewise by Summers. Political correctness seems somehow to have slipped through our Ivy-covered gates and infiltrated even brilliant minds within the academy...
...Somehow Larry knew exactly where he wanted to go, and every word was just very well chosen,” Goldin said in an interview Monday. “He gave a talk that from beginning to end was a beautifully linear set of thoughts...
...Somehow the Holmans' family home still stands, though burned patches a few meters away show how close the fire came. But the 1,100-hectare farm is "burned from end to end," 500 of their sheep are dead, and the local township of Wanilla "looks like a scene from the Second World War," says Leith. Still, they know how lucky they are. Many friends have lost homes. Close friend Neil Richardson and another resident, Trent Murnane, died fighting the blaze. The men didn't live in the fire-affected area but, like many others, had volunteered to help. Another friend...
...juice into Pinot Noir. We need art to tell us, as religion once did, Memento mori: remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it. It's a message even more bitter than a clove cigarette, yet, somehow, a breath of fresh...
...nature she was a moralist, and in the work she published in the 1970s and '80s it was the latter side of her that came forward. In Illness as Metaphor--published in 1978, after she suffered breast cancer and a mastectomy--she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a particular problem of repressed personalities, a notion that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. And in her 1977 book On Photography she proposed that photographs were a kind of moral anesthesia, deadening our response to pain by reproducing images of suffering until they become banalities...