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...Here’s what he should have said: “Harvard today is good but it is not great. Her students are ambitious, but they are aimless. Subject to substandard undergraduate education, her students are incentivized to maximize their GPAs. Her professors are not incentivized to teach...
...Vonnegut was born Indianapolis in 1922, the son of an architect. His early life shows the kind of aimless lateral peregrinations of someone who was in the process of inventing a kind of person that hadn't really existed before. He put in a mediocre stint at Cornell before enlisting in the army in 1942, in the teeth of World War II. Shortly afterward - and within a year of each other - two events occurred that would prove to be formative for Vonnegut. In 1944, on Mother's Day, he came home on leave to discover that his mother, an unsuccessful...
...Maticevski is the most original. He showcases several different styles, including puffy, soft gowns sculpted like a butterfly’s wings to create ethereal silhouettes in bright lemon and peach. Like BCBG, the clothes are hardly street-wear material, but Maticevski elevates his line to sculpture instead of aimless fabric layering. He next juxtaposes that style with petite black nightwear—mini dresses, fitted jackets, complicated necklines, and lots of silver metallic long gowns and accessories. Fear not, fashion followers. Maticevski more than satiates our appetite for edgy, contemporary, artsy fashion.9:40 p.m.As our fashion weekend comes...
...bassist Paul Simonon (of the Clash) contributes the most to the album’s feel. From the hopelessness of “Behind the Sun” to the electro-folk longing of “The Bunting Song,” his secure playing offsets the constant, aimless misery...
...Socialist candidate for France's upcoming presidential elections, seemed bulletproof last autumn after trouncing two opponents with high-powered resumés. But in the two weeks since the governing conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) affirmed Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy as its candidate, Sego is looking aimless and rattled - Sarkozy's poll numbers have surpassed hers, and Socialist advisers are beginning to bicker over how to put the wind back in her sails...