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...Being a conservative is absolutely not about ‘conserving what cannot be conserved’ or lying there to wait for things to revert back to the way it was in the past,” Kwong wrote last fall in an editorial in The Crimson. “I have witnessed the transformation of the campus conservative movement to a more dynamic, diverse, and welcoming force...
...released in March. Lafair's research shows that, much as we like to believe that our behavior is entirely rational and governed by our conscious mind, our thoughts and actions are often driven by the roles we learned in our families as children. And under pressure, we tend to revert to old patterns. That fellow standing at the watercooler telling tasteless jokes at the top of his lungs, for instance, probably comes from a family saddened by some painful event (a serious chronic illness, an early death), where his job as a child was to try to cheer everyone else...
...punk rock survives.Its survival derives from its credibility, and its credibility, after more than 30 years, derives from its sense of iconoclasm. The underground history of punk is rife with bands that barely have any history at all; “true” punk musicians, to this day, revert to a sort of self-destructive loop of formation-creation-disbandment to avoid unwanted attention and the anathema of a “signature sound.” The idea of success is alien to punk rock, and simply not present in the lexicon. Bands that move forward?...
...already slowed construction of its Allston expansion, which combined with other campus capital projects would have cost roughly $1 billion a year in capital spending and required Harvard to issue $3 billion in new debt over the next three to four years, according to the report.Planned spending could revert to higher levels “if fundraising results or the economy’s growth is substantially better than expected,” said Moody’s, which expressed confidence in the University’s liquidity position and reaffirmed its top “Aaa” rating...
...territory, we'll come to recognize that party-line adherence to old political convictions won't provide any easy way out. Given that it was our unthinking trust in the unthinking certainty of "experts" that got us here - securitized debt? credit-default swaps? uh, sure, whatever - Americans can now revert to their ruthlessly pragmatic, commonsensical selves. Admitting that we aren't certain exactly how to proceed is liberating, and key. Hyperbolic rants and rigid talking points, in either Limbaughian or Olbermannian flavors, now seem worse than useless, artifacts of a bumptious barroom...