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WithLapin Agile,Martin tries to prove he has range, but his greatest strengths are still his quixotic jokes and ironic turns on everyday life. History of 20th century thought, needless to say, is not Martin's strongest suit. His insights, though cogent and integrated into casual dialogue with obvious mastery of craft, come out of so many textbook summaries and sound too regurgitated to be more creative than didactic. Original characters have always been his fort, and here, again, they are at once brilliant and painfully funny. Will LeBow as the art dealer, Sagot (both real and reputedly a patron...
Although HRE evidently expects us to believe that the destruction of the original sign is part of their brilliant master plan, other explanations seem more cogent. As Mark Gauthier, a chaplain for the United Ministry at Harvard, presciently noted in September, "Harvard has been around for 350 years. This modern art stuff is trendy--it's a nineties thing and it's going to be out." Well, at least HRE's foray into modern art is going to be out--out of Holyoke Center, anyway...
Guinier's ideas for reform are cogent and persuasive. The centerpiece of her thought is cumulative voting, which is a system of proportional representation. There is a strong case for this alternative over our familiar winner-take-all system. As independent empirical studies have shown, proportional representation tends to produce more representative legislative bodies, minimize wasted votes, bring an end to gerrymandering, discourage negative campaigning, encourage issue-oriented campaigns and produce higher voter turnout rates. And this system is already common in Europe...
...benefits he gets from GM, and it proposes no direct new taxes except for one on tobacco (though new insurance premiums that some companies and workers would have to pay are often considered a tax by another name). As for fears of declining quality of care, a more cogent criticism would be that the Administration has made the benefits it would guarantee to everybody more generous than most insurance plans now provide -- raising a serious question of whether the plan contains anything like an adequate method of paying for them...
...Wexler says the articles in the issue wereanything but cogent persuasive and that the pollof undergraduate women, a centerpiece of thearticle, was conducted unfairly...