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...weeks ago, an unnecessary film unnecessarily titled “Mr. Woodcock.”It’s a damn mess is what it is.A few weeks ago, a former associate professor from Harvard’s government department joined the fray, publishing a near 2000-word op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the state of liberal education at the College. “Our Compassless Colleges,” the piece by Peter Berkowitz was titled, and it proffered a solution to our woes.The conservative critique of liberal education is not new, but the timing...
...Stand for Security campaign, should be classified as narcissism, not true activism, a categorization she borrowed from Bill Maher. Coggins fairly paraphrased the TV host, but provided an obscured description of her classmates’ actions. Coggins contrasted a campaign that was, in every sense of the word, effective, with the recent “HIV Positive” stunt, praising those behind the latter for resisting the “inflated sense of self.” A hunger striker is many things, but self-indulgent isn’t one of them. Most Harvard students would be hard...
...recording of the world’s first known case of homosexual necrophilia in a male duck. He is the European Bureau Chief at the Annals of Improbable Research, which presents the awards. His favorite winner this year? Glenda Browne, an indexer who studied the difficulties presented by the word “the,” from issues of when to capitalize the word, to its placement in alphabetical indexes when appearing at the beginning of a title. “It’s good research,” Moeliker said of Browne’s project...
...York Times, to respond less than enthusiastically. “The discussion about the book is more about me, not about the book. I think people are responding to who wrote the book. That is not how you read a book. You read a book by looking at the words on the page, how they fit together, and what they mean,” she says. “It is shocking to me that it is controversial. My intention was to write about my own experience, that being both comical and sad.” Particularly sad?...
...money laundering of their campaigns. And whatever the involvement of their campaigns, Sessions and Pryor both assert they were completely unaware of his confessed chicanery. But the U.S. Attorney's office chose to prosecute Siegelman in no small measure on the basis of Young's word and chose not to investigate Sessions and Pryor - or their campaigns - on the basis of that same word...