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...would add a course that I would teach, called “How to give me $100,000,” wherein each student would learn how to deposit $100,000 into my personal account. This course will prepare young undergrads for a long career of giving me money throughout their futures. Space is limited to 40 million students. Extra credit can be obtained by giving me $200,000 and some ice cream. I will offer a second year course called “How to blow people...
...solidarity around core teachings together with friendly address to Christians and respect for the public good as a whole." The letter ends with a quote from the Koran - "Vie one with another in good works ... Unto God ye will all return, and He will then inform you of that wherein ye differ" - before making a final plea for peace: "So let our differences not cause hatred and strife between us. Let us vie with each other only in righteousness and good works." Surely that's a sentiment people of all faiths can share...
...intermaxillary motion, unable to chew and unable to eat real food, that the younger Grass resonated so powerfully with me. There was a confluence between my real life and his life as he retold it. He was in an American prisoner of war camp, taking a cooking class wherein they had no food to prepare, starving. I, too, was suffering hunger pains, and was engrossed in the feasts he was taught to conjure out of thin air. I, just like him, could do no more than dream of delectable chewables, constrained as I was to mush for weeks. And there...
...review of makers, breakers and Fixers, the latest "Blokes and Sheds" book by Mark Thomson [Aug. 6]. In pride of place on the door to my shed is a Shed Code of Practice from woodworkforums.com, which states: "The purpose of a shed is to provide an environment and territory wherein a bloke has total and complete dominion and control and is therefore happy." And: "A bloke shall never have enough tools." Gordon Bidgood, Tyabb, Victoria...
Harvard has, in recent years, tumbled from the lofty climes of dynasticism to rude meritocracy. Apparently, whoever slaves over each page of text with the most ardor wins. Only the campus’s social scene maintains the admirable vestiges of ages past, wherein an arbitrary elite is permitted to exclude undesirables, leaving them to commiserate in the street over the drunken, menacing friends they might have made. The latest permutation of this base competitive construct is CEB Risk, bringing all the cold calculation of war to an already-cutthroat Cambridge...