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...overriding purpose is, it is difficult not to think of the present war in Afghanistan. Is this a national epic, designed to express our spirit, stand for us and speak for us? Or is it only meant to speak for Crowley, as a kind of spiritual autobiography, somehow chronicling his own awakening to the power of poetry and love...
...have raised the next big star and have tricked themselves into thinking that a place on a Harvard sports team is the way to go. There are the dramatic parents who want to give you the whole story, from wunderkind’s birth to this very moment, because somehow they’ve decided that you care. The silent parents who let their prospective student do “all” the talking, only interrupting to correct every mistake, dot every verbal “i” and cross every...
Yale’s new policy rejects the federal government’s contention that inhibiting individuals’ access to education somehow constitutes just punishment for drug-related offenses. Rapists, murderers and other violent criminals, upon their acceptance to any university, still receive full consideration for federal financial aid, yet teenagers guilty of possessing a dime bag of marijuana are not. In its effort to wage war on drugs, the government has lost its sense of perspective on the relative severity of crimes and seems determined to single out drug offenders for permanent punishment. While thieves may spend time...
...were both black and white and colored. When subjects under hypnosis were asked to see color, neuronal activity was detected in the basic color-identifying portion of the brain even when the pictures were black and white. This observation led the team to conclude that the hypnosis was not somehow tricking the brain into seeing color—through the hypnosis, the brain actually was seeing a colored image...
Summer 2001: I travel to Nicaragua to work for an NGO. Somehow, I finagle myself into a party at the ambassador’s residence. There, I meet the members of a congressional committee and, more importantly, their military escorts. Impeccably mannered, neatly dressed, well-spoken military men and women flood the patio while the congressmen swill rum punch. A naval attaché takes me under her wing and introduces me to all the “right people” as I marvel at her grace, strength, presence and poise. Later in the summer, I wait by the side...