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Committee chair and Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’52 could not be reached for comment last night. But two weeks ago, Verba declined to discuss the specific points of the report, but said it gave careful context to its recommendations...
...forever complaining/raving about, but I certainly know of him—name, concentration, thoughts on Kant as argued in that Social Analysis class sophomore year. And for such enigmatic figures to disappear at the end of the semester and then reappear once again in an entirely different context two degrees of separation away is a joyful moment which should be enough for even the most dedicated Disney-hating hermit to want to burst out in “It’s A Small World After All.” Such chance encounters with ghosts of section past...
Students voiced concerns that low grades in the sciences were keeping their peers out of medical school, but Summers said that most people regard Harvard grades in their context, adding that he was hesitant to instrumentalize our grading system to push more kids into medical school...
...What the Bush administration tragically lacks is clarity. The U.S. and the rest of the free world would never have been at odds if the President had just explained his policy in context, like this: "U.N. antiproliferation efforts have been sabotaged so massively that WMD will soon be accessible to terrorists, if they are not already. Since 9/11, the U.S. has had to anticipate warlike terrorist attacks. We ask the U.N. to fight nuclear proliferation and make WMD-trading nations stop that activity or else we're going to oust their regimes one by one, for they promote terrorism. Iraq...
Also, in defense of the line, “I can see your sadness” (I apparently have more invested in this debate than even I expected), you seem to forget its context. It was delivered by an immigrant worker whose imperfect English was intended to make it sound somewhat stilted, excusing any loss of impact derived therein. I present to you another line from Adaptation that single-handedly trumps any off-day Kaufman offerings, when Donald Kaufman describes the screenplay he’s working on: “So the killer flees on horseback with the girl...