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Harvard College is not a summer camp. That much should be abundantly clear to anyone with the vaguest understanding of the serious academic exertion that is required before one can get a Harvard degree. It is also not a purely research-driven university like MIT—and it never should...
Furthermore, there is scant evidence that the President is either messianic or a hard-edged religious determinist. Bush and I had several discussions about faith (and faith-based social programs) back when he was Governor of Texas, and he never displayed the vaguest hint of dogmatism or sense of destiny. Quite the contrary: his faith was humble and, well, soft. It softened his cowboy-preppie heart, especially when he was in the presence of poverty and despair. He used words like love and heart more than any other presidential candidate I've ever seen. It was a rudimentary form...
...Furthermore, there is scant evidence that the President is either messianic or a hard-edged religious determinist. Bush and I had several discussions about faith (and faith-based social programs) back when he was Governor of Texas, and he never displayed the vaguest hint of dogmatism or sense of destiny. Quite the contrary: his faith was humble and, well, soft. It softened his cowboy-preppie heart, especially when he was in the presence of poverty and despair. He used words like love and heart more than any other presidential candidate I've ever seen. It was a rudimentary form...
...David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it.” This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything at all. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without contradiction...
...Frankly I don’t have the vaguest idea what [these things] mean. Maybe nothing and maybe everything,” he wrote...