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Another rainy afternoon has fallen upon the Yard, and that dreary lazy feeling is slowly beginning to retard any attempt to steep myself in the intricacies of fiscal policy or the wise words of Professor Martin S. Feldstein '61. No, I don't think Ec 10 will receive my attention today. Of course, wet afternoons aren't a time for study; they're a time for reflection...
MOLL FLANDERS (June 14). Robin Wright is Defoe's heroine whore who, one man says, "taught me the true meaning of courage." The man is Morgan Freeman, who has become the movies' wise, tired conscience, which makes this feminist romance automatically worth seeing...
...flat water and essentially [nonexistent] wind made for perfect conditions," junior rower Ryan Wise said...
...invention of an authority figure who was imperfect though invariably wise and right was a novel idea, Travers' gift to the modern children's book, just as the idea that a little boy could go off and have unsupervised adventures with his stuffed animals, however fantastical, was Milne's. Both writers were emerging from a Victorian tradition that saw children's literature as a didactic form whose function--if it wasn't to romanticize childhood--was to instill a respect for adult values and behavior...
...Jesus Seminar members do not believe Jesus was more than just a man, why do they go to all this trouble to discredit him? Why worry themselves about something they say is of little importance? Could it be that they want to make a name for themselves as being wise or they wish to be free of any responsibility to obey God? The quickest way is to pretend he doesn't exist. What they are saying is nothing new. Many hammers have beaten on the old anvil, but those hammers are gone; the anvil is still around. I am particularly...