Word: willingness
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Hard-line critics (and in less moderate moments, I have certainly been among them) would do well to remember that the vast majority of Harvard students are willing participants in and beneficiaries of elitism in some form or another. Otherwise we just wouldn't be here. The final clubs may...
Well, to begin with, the Scopes trial is not the great fable the rather fictional Inherit the Wind made it out to be. The instigators of the trial were not bluenosed know-nothings wanting to persecute some poor teacher for teaching evolution. They were officials of the American Civil Liberties...
Burton became a household name in 1989 with the release of Batman; before that, he was relatively well-known as the director of the 1988 hit Beetlejuice and 1985's Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. Since Batman, Burton has enjoyed the special type of freedom that comes with success, working...
"You have to be willing to subjugate your own ego for the joint common good," Singer said.
The trial became a case study of sorts. Under the microscope: A three-year-old Michigan law, the most stringent of its kind, which permits prosecutors, with a judge's permission, to try children as adults. "The theory behind this law," says TIME Detroit bureau chief Nichole Christian, "is that...