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Talking of life in the Harvard houses, Finley said, "the more fetching sex, among its many superior gifts, heeds life's enticing summons. In this pre-medical era, a girl of course takes chemistry and biology but, life being beautiful, does some fine arts and acquires a picture or two. She reads, and her bookcase shows some Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson. In deference to modernity, she even does some sociology. Then when a member of my obsessive sex who simple-heartedly looks to business school via economics seeks to make headway with her, she starts educating him--needless...
...Loyalty is a very important trait, one of those principles that should adhere to your core. But how far does loyalty go? Are you loyal to the point of supporting your superior in an illegality...
...opinion, that becomes misplaced loyalty, and you ought to do something about it. If you see wrongdoing, loyalty requires that you go to your superior, notwithstanding that it may not be beneficial, and say that what you see being done is wrong and should be stopped. You should try to correct it in-house. But if you can't change it inside, then you get out and try to change it from outside...
...Eurocentric to believe the life of liberty is superior to the life of the beehive? That belief does not justify the cruelty of the conquest. But it does allow us to say that after 500 years the Columbian legacy has created a civilization that we ought not, in all humble piety and cultural relativism, declare to be no better or worse than that of the Incas. It turned out better...
...year later, the church, to which 97% of Poland's 38 million people belong, is omnipresent and, in the view of some, virtually omnipotent. Bishops and priests bless the armed forces, schools and factories. The newly created post of superior chaplain to the army has been given the rank of general. To mark the 200th anniversary of the country's first liberal constitution earlier this month, President Lech Walesa, a devout Catholic, skipped ceremonies at parliament and instead visited the national shrine of the Black Madonna at Jasna Gora...