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...first impression of Guinier completely wrong? Guinier and her supporters certainly say so. Quotes were taken out of context, her ideas were hacked into soundbites, and everything was made twenty times worse by the media frenzy. Well, this only begs the real question, what should we make of Lani Guinier...
There are many courses at Harvard that parachute you into an arcane debate, with little explanation of the historical context, the basic forces at work, or the import of the outcome...
...this context, Greenspan's close relationship with the Clinton Administration, which burst into the spotlight with his now famous appearance beside Hillary Rodham Clinton at the President's first address to a joint session of Congress in February 1993, has turned out to be useful. "Both sides need each other," says Felix Rohatyn, a partner at the investment firm Lazard Freres. "The Administration benefits from the reflected cachet of a conservative Republican like Greenspan, whose job is made easier by the deficit-reduction policies and fiscal prudence that Clinton has so far demonstrated." Besides the saxophone, both men have...
When we see smoking in this context--as a rite of passage for so many, as an indelible part of our culture, and as an act still in many ways symbolic--it makes no sense to expect to eliminate it by legislating it out of existence. While outlawing cigarettes in our workplaces and restaurants may make the air in some areas cleaner, and play to specious claims about the dangers of second-hand smoke, it also makes tobacco more mysterious, more difficult to obtain, and makes smoking even more of a symbolic act. Suddenly those secret puffs become not just...
...course, we should e wary of taking the actor's lines out of context. so we let the character speak for himself: "If we vote this increase, we're doing what the students want." Clearly, this Beys figure mocks the very concept of the" man of the people," while employing impeccably faculty logic to reach ill-conceived conclusions...