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Observing Harvard seniors flocking to consulting and investment banking, I am devastatingly aware that our society suffers from acute self-hatred. How else can one reconcile the social valorization of these careers with the social stigmatization of so-called "socially responsible careers"? The predominant perceptions are clear enough: a stated...
I'm sure that most Question 2 proponents would want to do this, but courts have ruled that such restrictions are unconstitutional, whereas reasonable voluntary restrictions on campaign spending in exchange for public funding have been ruled constitutional. Short of a constitutional amendment or a reversal of court rulings, the...
Something else changed after that night. Whereas Cassius Clay's jests had all been geared strictly to boxing, Muhammad Ali's tongue became valuable advertising space, and it began to beam Black Muslim messages that jarred strangely against the fight hype and made Ali some real enemies, as opposed to...
The great difference between Australian and American landscape experience in the early 19th century was that Americans tended to see their wilderness as God's promise, whereas Australians emphatically didn't. Northeastern America had been settled by free, self-exiled Puritans, convinced of their sacred mission to convert "the Lord...
Linguists have offered other solutions. The most common alternative--which has become acceptable in everyday speech despite its grammatical incorrectness--is to follow the gender-unspecific subject with the plural "they" ("If anyone wants to, they can pick up their paper..."). This construction may not sound too bad when spoken...