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...staff chooses to criticize the BGLTSA for using the same First Amendment right that The Crimson depends on everyday (Monday through Friday, holidays excluded). While The Crimson may purport to hold to certain standards of decency, these standards are, as we well know, are completely subjective. Intellectual communities thrive on free discourse, especially the kind of discourse which challenges our subjective ideas of decency. Outside visitors come to admire Harvard not just for its brick buildings and carefully tended lawns, but also for the vibrancy of the intellectual community which those buildings house. To criticize a group which has contributed...
Consequently, we second-guess the motives of those who spend "too much" time on academics: Students who incessantly ask questions in lecture are brown-nosers, pre-meds who study on weekends are anal, gov-jocks who thrive on the Federalist papers are future political wannabe's. Academic earnestness is often meet with scathing criticisms of social climbing. The oft-repeated statement that "Harvard would be so much better if we didn't have classes" is a pithy reflection of our ironic attitude...
...Talk wants to thrive, it's going to have to drop such pretension. Sure, a magazine can cover celebrities, but the people who run it just can't be obsessed with becoming celebrities themselves. Unfortunately for Talk's staff, Brown may have already ruined that for them by grabbing for the spotlight rather than letting the magazine naturally shine...
...have failed. The expectation of quick and miraculous success was naive when applied to a country with a scant history of capitalism, no experience with democracy, and no tradition of the rule of law. Whatever Washington did was a crapshoot. Russians have always cheated the system to survive or thrive, first the Czars, then the Party, now the elected government. Men who were once at home in the old regime hold power in the new, leaving little ground for reform to take root. Since the whole economy collapsed in August 1998, Russian politicians have been more interested in whom...
...that in the '90s rush to exorcise the ghost of Stalinism, the distinctions between government, legitimate business and organized crime became dangerously blurred in Russia. "Crime, politics and business in Russia feed off each other," says Meier. "Russia?s huge criminal organizations were born, and continue to thrive, because of their access to political power...