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...Greed Ever Good? In his commentary "In Defense of Excess" [March 15], columnist Michael Kinsley proposed?somewhat facetiously, to be sure?that the greedy corporate executives currently on trial for their part in financial scandals are "martyrs of capitalism, dying financially so that others may prosper" and that such criminals are "a sign of the U.S. economy's robust health." Greed is unquestionably a part of the human condition, and in a healthy society there will be a moderate amount of greed. Excessive greed, however, is a sign of lack of judgment in those who have cannibalized their...
...somewhat surprisingly, in two of the three wins, it was the team’s starting pitching and not its powerful lineup that...
Think about spring break in California, and you’ll think of beaches. Of sun. Of relaxation. But for the No. 15 Harvard men’s tennis team, spring break in California proved somewhat less agreeable. The Crimson (9-5) fell to No. 34 California last Monday and to No. 9 Stanford on Tuesday, a quite unpleasant start to the squad’s annual west-coast trip...
...atmospheres and human eccentricities. The mood in his pictures can be drowsy, lonely, lyrical and sometimes just a bit surreal. He works within the great tradition of personal documentary that stretches from Walker Evans through Robert Frank to Soth's teacher, Joel Sternfeld. Though that tradition was pushed aside somewhat by the postmodern antics of the 1980s and the digitally manipulated images of the '90s, Soth's pictures are proof of its enduring strength and ragged glories...
...question how feasible it is to grant every student, including the most science-phobic, Shakespeare-toting humanities junkie, the serious knowledge about science Summers calls for. In speeches, Summers has justified the need for scientific understanding on the basis of the needs of a globalized society, another perennial (if somewhat meaningless) refrain in this curricular review. What’s all too obvious, unfortunately, is that this pro-sciences argument follows economic and political lines rather than the intellectual, moral and idealistic principles of liberal arts espoused in the Conant review, which sought to make Harvard students into educated members...