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...national goldfish bowl, it is easy for the casual undergraduate to grow as indifferent to the changes within his Cambridge world as to development without. Perhaps, therefore, our readers will pardon the Crimson editors’ annual urge to review the past year’s developments before they depart from their notepad pinnacle for more academic file cards. Our only conclusion at such close range can be that it has been a good year for historians and for sorcerers, and that it has been a year of expansion. Although history is said to repeat herself anyway, President Pusey...
...almost any politician, nine years in office is long enough to curdle public opinion, but Tony Blair's fall from grace seems particularly poignant. As he stonewalled reporters last week about how soon he would depart Downing Street and issued uncharacteristically clunky ripostes during the Prime Minister's Question Time in Parliament, he scarcely resembled the vigorous, fresh-faced powerhouse who rode a landslide to office in 1997. No wonder: a year after winning a third term in office, the British leader is drenched in a storm of disdain. "He should go and give a different leader a chance," says...
Nine years in office is long enough for public opinion to curdle on any politician, but Tony Blair's fall from grace has been particularly poignant. Last week, as he stonewalled reporters about exactly when he would depart 10 Downing Street and fielded clunky ripostes to the zingers of the new Conservative leader, David Cameron, he seemed a different man from the vigorous, fresh-faced powerhouse who rode a landslide to office in 1997. Only a year after winning Labour's first consecutive third term in office, he is being drenched in a storm of public disdain. "Blair should...
...starts with graduation and ends with death, might find the beginnings of guidance in the directive written atop Dexter Gate. Sure to be repeated ad nauseum in the coming weeks (its biweekly appearance in this column’s title was just the beginning), it reads, “Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind.” Seeking further guidance, the graduate would find none; the instruction offers little insight into how, exactly, we are supposed to “serve better” once we depart...
...used to frown upon columnists who threw themselves narcissistic going-away parties in prose, but it turns out that the temptation for retrospective justification is irresistible. And so as I depart, I leave you with a pithy summary of my long project in the form of an admonition: Don’t forget the technology. Don’t forget the transformative influence it has right now, and never underestimate the long-term importance of future invention and progress...