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...either forbid private beliefs, on issues such as theology and morality, from public expression, so as not to offend any member of our community who may disagree. Or we can plead ignorance as to whether any standard exists to confirm that any beliefs are sufficiently “respectful” and “inoffensive” and therefore acceptable. The fundamental question, therefore, remains thus: which is more important...
Lucy Caldwell is mistaken to imply that rigorous academic standards and successful athletic teams are mutually exclusive. In the same March 2 New York Times article cited by Caldwell, Athletic Director Robert L. Scalise says he expects Harvard to maintain the best Academic Index in Ivy League men’s basketball despite Tommy Amaker’s new recruits. Harvard’s mission is best served by striving for excellence while still satisfying the constraint that its athletic teams have the best academic credentials within their sport. Ivy rules additionally ensure that the mean Academic Index of Harvard?...
...commonest argument I’ve heard on behalf of these inanities is that they help people to assure themselves they have, in fact, done the reading. As such, we should not hold them to any higher standard than absentminded doodling. The poet Collins ultimately comes to a similar conclusion: “We have all seized the white perimeter as our own / and reached for a pen if only to show / we did not just laze in an armchair turning pages; / we pressed a thought into the wayside, / planted an impression along the verge...
Emerging from the driver's seat of a new Nissan GT-R at the Tokyo Motor Show last fall, CEO Carlos Ghosn flashed a wry grin and a custom-made Louis Vuitton suit. Ghosn's sharp look--a departure from his usual boardroom standard issue--suggested a calculated step up for Japan's No. 3 automaker. The GT-R--part luxury vehicle, part sports car--is Nissan's bid to compete head on with Ferrari and Porsche. For a company that has built its brand on the 3.6 million reliable midrange vehicles it produces every year, that is no small...
...regular styleof speaking. The fusion of a nonstop upbeattempo and perfectly timed vocals onsuch tracks as “Unsuccessful Club Nights”and “House Music” is irresistible.Unlike many mainstream rap artists,Cadence Weapon’s music steers clear of aformulaic sound.The standard, commercially successfularrangement of verse-chorus alternationis noticeably absent from “AfterpartyBabies.” Cadence Weapon seems tobe more concerned with expressing hisopinions and telling a story through hismusic than pounding out radio-friendlysingles.Throughout “Afterparty Babies,” CadenceWeapon flippantly comments onmainstream culture and music...