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Conversing with dead people isn't all it's cracked up to be. The other night I had a brief edgy chat with Robert Lowell, the great poet who taught me poetry writing in the 1960s and died a few years later; I don't believe there was a connection. I do this sort of thing a lot lately--talk to the dead, live in the past--probably because I am getting on. But it's mainly a matter of preference. I would rather have a conversation with Lowell than with most of those who are so-called alive--though...
...that there is little evidence that the technique saves lives. Indeed, the data the group looked at suggest that breast self-exams can do more harm than good, prompting unnecessary testing of what are in fact normal lumps. The task force's recommendation: women should no longer be routinely taught how to screen themselves for breast cancer...
...Thomas Jefferson," the last of which, sadly, was not the setup to a joke. I am not sure what his speech was about since I was busy crossing out paragraphs from my speech. Then the ESPN guy talked about a "mentally challenged" kid in his high school who had taught him something about something. Again I was busy crossing...
...George Orwell taught us to beware of the sign on the wall reading: "Obey." It's best to get used to the idea. Way back in 1989, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate named Shepard Fairey started putting obscure stickers on buildings to promote a skateboard gang. They got attention and Fairey, inspired, kept slapping them up as a kind of mass psychology test: What does the average person make of a public sign that is, essentially, meaningless? The posters, stickers and spray-painted designs often bear the image of the late World Wrestling Federation star Andre the Giant...
...Does this mean character education is doomed to be the next DARE, the 18 year- old federal anti-drug program taught in 75% of school districts nationwide despite scads of evidence that it does little or nothing to curb drug use? My own experience tells me there has to be some value in trying to teach character, even if it doesn't show up on surveys of future behavior. But in the end what matters most is not how well-planned the program, or carefully defined the Congressional vocabulary, or how venerable the Honor Code, but rather the quality...