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...Fair Harvard,” we’d be in trouble.” Kirby effectively asserts that “school spirit” precludes students from being able to critically analyze Harvard, and thus, prevents Harvard from evolving. I find this notion to be misguided. Spirit is not, as Kirby states, “false sentimentality”; rather, spirit helps create passion for Harvard. Crimson spirit can turn loyalty to Harvard into love of Harvard. An alumnus loyal to Harvard may donate money every year, but an alumnus in love with Harvard is most concerned with...
...most effective way to make Harvard evolve is to create a student body so enamored of Harvard that “Harvard’s glory [is their] aim”—and the most effective way to create such a passion for this university is through spirit...
Instead, networks are trying to capture the spirit of what makes the Web distinctive. Part of that, says Brian Graden, entertainment president of MTV Networks music group, is a first-person point of view. "If we do a Top 10 music-video list," he says, "it won't work as well as if we offer Snoop Dogg's list of his favorite Top 10." Short works best too--that quarterly planning meeting is in 10 minutes!--and maybe for that reason, comedy, which also relies less on impressive visuals, plays better than drama (though ABC is working on cell-phone...
...Translation: The Senate bill has to come a lot closer to what we want. Meanwhile, in the basement of the Capitol, Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana spoke with TIME.com before holding the latest in a series of meetings with Senate hard-liner Jon Kyl of Arizona, a kindred spirit to the House Republicans...
...playwright since, Gow has never sought to recapture the butterfly spirit of Away. "I have a short attention span," he says. Instead he wrote the stage equivalent of a fingers-up sign to the Australian Bicentennial with 1841, took an Edward Albee-esque look at modern marriage in Sweet Phoebe (in which Cate Blanchett made her British stage debut) and, most recently, had actors perform The Iliad in underpants (Live Acts on Stage). But it is as a director that Gow is now making his mark. As artistic director of the Queensland Theatre Company since 1999, he has energetically championed...