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Undeniably, some of these e-mail lists have begun with a shaky start??€”in several Houses there has been little to no interest in these lists, while in others, there have been overly heated debates that have since degenerated into name-calling and other tomfoolery. But, these extreme cases aside, there are certain exemplars, such as Pforzheimer’s Pfoho Open, where the e-mail list serves as a legitimate forum for students to voice opinions, make announcements, advertise the sale of personal items and, more generally, get to know one another better...
...fear that what we’re really discovering is that all our least charitable hunches and peeves about Sontag may have been right from the start??€”she is pretentious, not to say stupid, and her prose is dull, not to say wholly unadmirable. Sontag simply isn’t much fun to read. The mind I detect in the pieces about literature, about Borges and about travel, is sensitive and intelligent. She has forged a deserved reputation for herself as the preeminent woman of fine art in the New York intelligentsia...
...misguided follower like Vicious, but as a contradictory control freak who sacrificed his life in order ensure the perpetuation of his status as a musical legend. Cross draws on an inevitable truth about major-label music that Vicious could not fathom and that Cobain knew from the start??€”that no music can become popular without some degree of commercial compromise...
Bollinger was an unusual candidate from the start??€”he had no connection to Harvard except that his daughter, Carey, had graduated from the College in 1998. But he encompassed many of the facets the committee was looking for: he was a popular and dynamic president who had reached out to undergraduates, had been a national leader in the fight for affirmative action and had helped jump start a special science initiative at Michigan. Most of all, though, he stressed that universities needed to focus on the fundamentals of academics...
...Bollinger was an unusual candidate from the start??€”he had no connection to Harvard except that his daughter, Carey, had graduated from the College in 1998. But he encompassed many of the facets the committee was looking for: he was a popular and dynamic president who had reached out to undergraduates, had been a national leader in the fight for affirmative action and had helped jump start a special science initiative at Michigan. Most of all, though, he stressed that universities needed to focus on the fundamentals of academics...