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...Moore is such a big fat target, metaphorically speaking, that he attracts attacks from swarms of ideological critics, thus bringing his message to more people. Last week, for example, the Treasury Department indicated it would investigate Moore for taking a trip to Cuba to check out Castro's medical system. (Guess what he found? It's better than ours!) Moore shot back with an open letter that claimed the Bush Administration was "abusing the federal government for raw, crass political purposes." It was his way of saying thank you for all the free publicity...
...their everyday lives. Yet this difficult and loaded question has emerged from the woodwork and has been asked, debated over e-mail, and discussed over dinner ever since Saturday. We write, of course, of the incident in which several Quad residents called the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) to check whether students playing on the Quad were in fact Harvard students and permitted to be there. It turned out that they were Harvard students who had explicit permission to use the space—and specifically members of the Black Men’s Forum (BMF) and Association of Black...
...Michael Moore: Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad?s check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems. If I tell people the administrative costs for a private health plan -advertising, p.r., executive pay -are 20% and ask them what Medicare?s administrative costs are, they?ll guess 50%, 60%. The fact is, for Medicare/ Medicaid, it?s 3%. The last figure I read...
...studiers. Luckily, in case the below-sea level altitude induces a nose-bleed, bathroom sinks are nearby. Fifth Floor Reading Room. If you’re not ready to hit up the dance club that is the third floor main reading room with all of its motion and commotion, check out the upper-level reading room, the “quiet zone.” When you’re ready to re-gain your sanity, however, abandon the mountain-folk of Lamont’s highest floor (and the lone, miniature pine-tree that adorns the middle...
...check the operation of a vague generality under fire, take the typical example, “Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme.” The question is asked, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?” Our hero replies by opening his essay with, “David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it.” This generality expert...