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Universities like Harvard still purport to teach the liberal arts, those studies worthy of a free man. Such a curriculum once itself implied an ideal, an end. The liberal arts, indeed, have had as their object to cultivate the “gentleman,” in the sense that...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: That Nameless Virtue | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

With an upcoming competition at MIT looming, the dancers are aiming to hone their movements into a solid, graceful routine, worthy of the top prize.

Author: By Laura M. Fontanills, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Freshman Dances Off the Beaten Path | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

Somalia is the most failed of failed states, but that doesn't make the pirates apolitical. They don't need a state. Piracy is their state. Trying to erect a livable society in Somalia would be to confront them with a rival, as we discovered once before. The pirates are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Surrender to Somali Pirate Thugs | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

Marketing firms are not the only ones who seem to have mistaken a wild stalk-and-ambush predator for an actual person. This image of an aggressively sexual older woman who pounces on younger men pervades our media. Spurred by the marriage of then-42-year-old Demi Moore to...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Cougars and Carnivores | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

Kristol, William • decidedly unbrilliant work of is somehow deemed worthy of a $250,000 Bradley Prize "for his outstanding achievements in a wide range of activities" - like writing a year's worth of some of the stupidest columns ever to sully the New York Times op-ed page

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

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