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...Since classics have survived only as texts and monuments," Nagy explains, "I need to bring to bear all sorts of comparisons...I want to help students understand how the flat text leapt off the page in performance...
Paul E. Tsongas called Bill Clinton the "pander bear." New York Times columnist Russell Baker called George Bush the political Santa Claus--sending jobs programs and Taiwanese contracts down the chimney...
They remain on the payroll regardless of significant fluctuations in their attendance, their availability, their expertise and their general aptitude in carrying out professional responsibilities. Ultimately, then, the students bear the consequences...
...other colleges have been far more fortunate than Harvard. Gates recently donated $6 million to Stanford University for a new computer lab which will bear his name. And last year, he donated $12 million to the University of Washington...
...saying. But there also seems to be an honesty threshold, a point beyond which a virtue turns mean and nasty. Constantly hearing the truth, the cold, hard, brutal unsparing truth, from spouses, relatives, friends and colleagues is not a pleasant prospect. "Human kind," as T.S. Eliot wrote, "cannot bear very much reality." Truth telling makes it possible for people to coexist; a little lying makes such society tolerable...