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...scouting establishment—that which commentators invoke when promoting the virtues of Scott Podsednik’s hustle or the merits of “small-ball”—there is an even older tradition that advocates of statistical analysis can use to combat the Tower of Babel-esque national baseball coverage: the scientific method...
...more than complicit in the production of inauthentic chick lit, that regrettably pervasive genre of packaged pop culture easily digested by teenage girls. We encourage and even inspire it. Harvard, I am most distressed to recognize, is at risk of becoming a bit like chick lit itself. The ivory tower has fallen; in its place we have erected a shopping mall...
...said that the ivory tower has fallen. This is no secret in the world at large, where “The Da Vinci Code” tops bestseller lists and serves as both the primary impetus for, and evidence in, ‘theological debates’ among the enlightened masses. In a culture where a talk show host’s approval immortalizes novels, where the most well-known humanitarian is a rock star, and where movie stars can popularize a religion created by a science fiction novelist, we cannot expect much in the way of literary and intellectual...
...unique power to influence all those who look to us with admiring and scrutinizing eyes. If we choose to oppose the tide of cultural mediocrity, we can be at the vanguard of a literary reformation. It is time to restore the loftiness, if not the arrogance, of the ivory tower...
...ALEXEI MITROPHANOV, State Duma Deputy Start at the cozy Red Bar on the 22nd floor of the Bagration Bridge Tower, pictured, in Kutuzovsky Prospect to enjoy the full view of the city. Take a cab to the Prado restaurant in Slavyanskaya Square for a delightful European or Asian dinner in old Moscow's downtown. Then take a postdinner walk to Tverskaya, the city's main artery, and drop into the classy and expensive Night-Flight club to mix with the most beautiful women in Moscow...