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Allowing students to select which subjects to explore within a given discipline is far better than requiring standard introductory courses for all first-year students. Not only would a battle over the content of a "Harvard canon" be vicious, but the outcome would be undesirable. It would force students to take classes they do not want to take and read texts many of them have already read. For professors, teaching such classes would be a chore rather than a chance to teach classes in their own areas of expertise, and their teaching would be less inspired...
...cities two-thirds of felony defendants have been arrested before, and about half of them had at least one prior conviction. Drug gangs are often armed with automatic weapons more lethal than the handguns the police carry. A career of confronting the vicious, conscienceless criminal-enemy frays the nerves. It drives police officers deeper into the solidarities of their professional tribe. There they find the support and understanding that they feel they rarely get elsewhere. The public, they think, prefers its innocence, does not really want to know the violent lengths to which cops sometimes go when trying to enforce...
...different moral order from the individual. It has its appetites and impulses, its voice, its collective will and emotions and personality. It has a mind of its own that can be frightening and inexplicable, like a domesticated animal, a pit bull or rottweiler, that may turn unpredictably vicious, attacking the children, doing wild-animal things no one could foresee...
...doubt largely because Yeltsin is so popular, Gorbachev detests him, and Yeltsin heartily reciprocates the sentiment. They are trying to vanquish each other with public denunciations, parliamentary maneuvers, resolutions on ballots and demonstrations in the streets. But vicious as their rivalry is, it is nothing compared with the way politics used to be in the Soviet Union -- and might be again if the advocates of a return to repression were to prevail...
...also comment briefly on Bridget Kerrigan's explanation of her vicious Confederate flag-hanging act which appeared in Thursday's Boston Globe. It strikes me as a sad commentary on our intellectual capacity at Harvard to elevate the level of our students' particularistic identities (e.g. ethnic, racial, national, religious, regional, gender, etc.) from a primitive and one-dimensional level to the cosmopolitan and humanistically sensitive. Here is how a bright senior at Harvard, Bridget Kerrigan, justifies her vicious...