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...doom and gloom? Part of this Chicken Little complex can be explained by rose-tinted nostalgia, but such pessimism also reflects deep-rooted self-doubt, a certain suspicion of man’s ability to handle his promethean powers. Caution transforms suffering into virtue and material progress into sin; this psychology of self-denial suggests that we are sowing the seeds of our future destruction with our present prolificacy. If this sentiment merely led individuals to forswear their own possessions, it would be rather harmless for society. But unfortunately, the modern ascetic impulse informs a wide range of misguided policy...
...suspicion is that maybe I was sufficient precisely because I was sufficient. I didn’t have a perfect résumé, but I offered a genuine argument that Harvard had what I needed. Maybe the admissions committee liked me just because I wasn’t what David Brooks has famously described as an “organization...
...betting before Tuesday was that Walton would not use that discretion to give Libby such a long sentence, since in doing so, he would be giving too much weight to a mere suspicion of the underlying, unproven crime. But as Libby's sentence proved, in today's criminal justice system, all such bets...
...Unfortunately, May 12 was not an aberration. In addition to dealing with the typical pains of being away from home and coping with a vigorous academic schedule, black students at Harvard must endure undue suspicion regarding their presence on campus. Many black students can share stories of having the police called on them, being asked to show IDs, being carefully scrutinized while shopping in the square, and receiving double-takes from fellow T riders as they exit the Red Line at the Harvard Square stop...
...guidelines, and if he believes that Libby's lies hid a probable violation of the law against outing covert agents, he can bump up the sentence to 30 months or more. The betting here is that he won't. It would give too much weight to a mere suspicion...