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...sport exemplifies my transition from indifference to utter dependence better than women’s ice hockey. It’s well known at The Crimson that women’s hockey was the subject of over a quarter of my articles, but often forgotten is that I watched just two women’s hockey games to completion my freshman year...
...benefits as well. But none are ideas to stir the soul. Democrats haven't done much soul stirring since the Kennedy era--and they haven't spent much time courting young people since then, either. (Their fixations on prescription drugs for the elderly and leaving Social Security alone are utter losers with nongraybeards.) If the Democrats want to think romantic as well as big, the obvious area is the environment. Several of the candidates have proposed dour, incremental "energy-independence" schemes that feature many of the worthy, ho-hum notions of years past--conservation, fuel-efficiency standards and the like...
What has made the case against capital punishment so difficult to argue, however, is the policy’s utter insignificance in practical terms. As of last Tuesday’s Texas execution of Juan Chavez, only 847 convicted murderers have been put to death since the 10-year moratorium on executions was broken 26 years ago. Death is used only sparingly as a form of punishment and has a minimal effect on prison populations and state treasuries. Indifference is indeed the first natural reaction to the death of less than 1000 of the country’s most vile...
Over the weekend in performances for Arts First—the University-sponsored annual arts festival—students will play in violin concertos, act in Shakespeare classics and dance in student-choreographed numbers. But come next week, Harvard will return to its traditional policy of neglect and utter lack of institutional support. As curricular review kicks off its examination of undergraduate education, Harvard must challenge its restrictive notion of “liberal arts” and construct an arts curriculum to meet growing student demand...
...dialogue, in true comic book fashion, leans towards the unnecessarily dramatic. After the president views surveillance photographs of the X-Men’s jet Blackbird, he asks Stryker what it’s used for. Stryker, with an expression of utter gravity, replies, “I don’t know. But it comes out of the basketball court.” Adding a tongue-in-cheek quality to such lines would probably have worked much better than playing them straight. But Singer otherwise handles the material admirably, juggling a crowded script and executing the most complex special...