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When Emily Dickinson corresponded with her lover, a married man, she made every letter count. Today, the art of letter writing has been reduced to the dregs of sub-standard English found in e-mail. Even grade A Harvard scribes tend to regress on the Internet, thanks to the College's most tried and true teaching method: Pavlovian conditioning...
...less according to rigorous standards of individual excellence, and more and more according to the diverse backgrounds and experiences they can import into the student body. In other facets of the university as well, variety is prevailing over quality. Witness the accelerating proliferation of concentrations, special concentrations and sub-concentrations, and the clamor for even more, such as ethnic studies...
...bunch of flighty deviants who abide by a parallel and distinct version of morality. Such tactics have been used for centuries, to a far more extreme degree by slave-owners and Nazis. Both oppressor groups justified their persecution and slaughtering by reducing their respective objects of hatred to the sub-human...
...plot line. Basically, this consists of a colonel, Delmore, (Joe Morton) just transferred to the area as he struggles not to deal with his deadbeat dad Otis (Ron Canada) who always lived there. Since these issues are standard--wild father, overcompensatingly strict son, and day-dreaming third generation--these sub-plots are more valuable for the amusing ironies that come forth. For example, Otis keeps a back-shed museum of black Seminole artifacts and doesn't fail to point out to Delmore's son, who stumbles in, that it was the Delmore's beloved Army that drove these Native Americans...
...Marshal in the Witness Protection Program, Arnold is really Special Agent in Charge of Blowing Stuff Up. Is he human? No, he's super- and sub-. He can outshoot, outpunch and outthink any adversary; he survives all manner of impalement. Hell, he can even type. And he has the superhero's belief in his own invincibility. Unarmed and surrounded by villains pointing heavy artillery at him, Arnold tells his main captor, "If you drop your gun, I promise I won't kill...