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...that Harvard is about achievement, about excellence. This College only admits individuals who have demonstrated exceptional abilities to achieve and excel. Unlike Harvard's office of Admissions, Mr. Lat still labors under the antiquated notion that such abilities are purely quantifiable. Would he dare suggest that MIT is a superior institution because its SAT average is usually higher than Harvard's? I hope...
...erectus' ticket out of Africa, why are they not found everywhere the travelers went? Alan Thorne, of the Australian National University in Canberra, suggests that the Asian H. erectus built advanced tools from something less durable than stone. "Tools made from bamboo," he observes, "are in many ways superior to stone tools, and more versatile." And bamboo, unlike stone, leaves no trace after a million years...
...Filene's Basement in Boston is the mother of all Filene's Basement stores (although some argue that the younger Worcester branch is far superior.) Like Mother Nature, she will always remain central in the lives of humans because she fills a vital role in the delicate realm of human experience, as necessary to survival as water, as pleasing as the sun. Filene's Basement allows to revert to our most basic condition: that of the hunter-gather...
...only taken the next small step, in assuming that its particular perspective is in some way superior. There will always be those, in some bizarre twist of fascist logic, who cling to a society delineated and determined by one's race and heritage...
...book, he manages to override the Roman model. Bennett suggests a superior truth about the American character: Americans do not care so much about differences in culture or even in color (despite much rancid history under that heading) as they care about character as it is expressed in behavior. The American challenge now is not to pay homage to every cultural variation and appease every ethnic sensitivity, but rather to encourage universally accepted ideals of behavior: self-discipline, compassion, responsibility, friendship, work, courage, perseverance, honesty, loyalty and faith...