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...boredom, CBS gave fans a show that did very little to tide them over until NCAA basketball vacates Thursday nights next week. In staying faithful to the arc of the show thus far, tribal council by tribal council, CBS missed a chance to give close readers a tasty treat: More unseen footage of the eight people actually still competing for the million bucks...
...with the only likely suspense of the next three weeks centering on whether one of the three remaining Kucha-ites can crack the Ogakor alliance, it would have behooved CBS to treat viewers to every available insight into the minds of not only Rodger, Elisabeth and Nick but the vulnerable Jerri and the swing vote Colby. At 99 hours a week, there had to have been more of that than what...
...Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 during Junior Parents Weekend, I was dismayed by the cadre of police who were sent to muffle our silent expression. I am indeed puzzled by this action on behalf of the administration, partly because I am surprised that they didn't treat the parents a little more gingerly, but mostly because of the way they used intimidation to squelch the airing of our views about a living wage. The amount of police power expended to keep a few posters from being held up during a speech was outrageous. Having asked...
...most entertaining irony of human affairs. (Literally entertaining--we get any number of our movies, books and TV shows out of it.) In such an ancient predicament, can anything new ever happen? Sure it can. Proposing to tell God himself that he has no right to treat you unjustly was once a big advance (see Book of Job). So were trial by jury and the right to remain silent. So were fingerprinting and DNA evidence. So was the electric chair...
Even before the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine came off the presses, the new experimental surgery to treat Parkinson's disease had sparked more than its share of controversy. Pro-lifers hated it because the operation used cells from aborted fetuses to replenish patients' dying brain tissue. Many others were troubled because clinical trials of the procedure involved "sham surgery"--in this case, drilling through the skulls of half the patients in the study without giving them any treatment...