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...film, Benjamin will note that the pre-recorded movie—as opposed to the live stage performance “permits the audience to take the position of a critic, without experiencing any personal contact with the actor.” More importantly, it allows us to avoid becoming actors ourselves altogether...
Though I disagree with some of what Rosovsky actually did for the College, his axioms on how this university runs should be heeded. To paraphrase another Harvard graduate, we must know our history in order to repeat its successes and avoid its dark moments. Students need to act to change Harvard within the trends that stretch on before and after them, so first they must learn what those traditions have been. Perhaps they can learn it in the Core program Rosovsky helped create. Anyone up for teaching Historical Studies A-1636: “Harvard from Origins to the Present?...
Seek is a wonderful travel book about traveling places people don’t usually go. In fact, in a way it is about traveling to places, physical and mental, that most people would rather avoid. Johnson comes, and he sees, and he writes about it. Sometimes he passes judgment. Unsurprisingly, he puts it best himself: “I want to float above the fray, want to be like Walt Whitman, ‘both in and out of the game, and watching and wondering at it.’” Johnson’s only shortfall...
...living wage on principle without offering his statement as a quid pro quo or as a bribe for the protesters’ departure. Summers may be reluctant to step on Rudenstine’s toes by announcing his views before taking office, but Rudenstine must feel similar pressure to avoid policy commitments. Given the immediacy of the living wage issue, the University should not operate without anyone at the helm for the next two months...
...attacked, and as recently as 1996 the Clinton administration moved two carrier battle groups into the Taiwan Strait when Beijing appeared to be threatening a missile strike on the island. But it's never said as much, nor does it have any formal defense pact with Taiwan, precisely to avoid emboldening the Taiwanese to declare independence, which would almost certainly drive Beijing...