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...Jersey Senator Bill Bradley-a former New York Knicks basketball star, Rhodes Scholar and all-around Democratic deep thinker-said he would not seek re-election in 1996. Calling the U.S. political system "broken," the respected Bradley added that he had grown disillusioned after three Senate terms. "Neither political party speaks to people where they live their lives," he declared. Although Bradley said he would not challenge Clinton in the 1996 Democratic primaries, he did not rule out the possibility of running as an independent...
...excerpts from "Industrial Society and Its Future" bear the stamp of an earnest thinker who has reinvented the wheel and wonders why nobody is paying attention. Modern life is hard, the Unabomber announces: "The moral code of our society is so demanding that no one can think, feel and act in a completely moral way. For example, we are not supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everybody hates somebody at some time or other, whether he admits it to himself or not." Why are things so fouled up? "The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster...
...summary of his service record provided by the Army and anecdotes from soldiers familiar with him, his claims seem inflated. He did attend the Army's intelligence school at Fort Huachuca in Arizona, but the introductory curriculum he would have taken was less suited to a high-level strategic thinker than to that person's secretary. Once back in Michigan, as an E-5 specialist -- the equivalent of a sergeant -- with a G-2, or security, section of a peacetime Reserve unit, there would have been little call for the arcane arts he had learned. A soldier in the current...
...SENIOR YEAR, Jennifer Kennedy '90, a Women's Studies concentrator, spent a long time thinking about Rousseau's dog. Her Hoopes-winning thesis, entitled, oddly enough, Rousseau's Dog, analyzes several theories of women's education using Rousseau's dog as a key to understanding the French thinker. The paper now resides in the Harvard University Archives, along with many other, far less titillating Hoopes-winners...
...Rand's ideas are rarely if ever mentioned in the classroom. Is Harvard indeed the liberal arts school that it professes to be? Does it teach its students the vast and diverse richness of ideas? Or has Harvard become the bastion of a dogmatic school of thought where a thinker has to conform in order to penetrate the thick walls of the ivory tower...