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...scrutiny this week, "What is Beauty?" (Oct. 5), puts forward a perceived Harvard ideal woman: "blond, sophisticated, wealthy, slim, petite, beautifully dressed and even more beautifully connected." It then discusses this ideal with Jewish, Asian and black students, who express varying opinions on the subtle pressures of plastic surgery and what kinds of girls get picked up first...
...appreciate FM's effort to sample several ethnicities, but (ignoring race for a moment) they are addressing a narrow cross-section of the social world here at Harvard. The article made a tacit assumption about the personalities of all these beautiful people: The Harvard ideal woman is a well-dressed socialite, and everyone here wants to be one. Reading the FM article, I had the same feeling I get every time I pick up a women's magazine like Cosmopolitan or Glamour: this has no relation to my life...
...spend so little time thinking about the "Harvard ideal" that we couldn't even tell you what it is. Most important, we're not the tiny minority the FM article paints...
...campaign finance question and the one about kids being exposed to sex and violence. (Why didn't W. praise Tipper? It woulda been a home run and preempted Al.) His praise of McCain was a good riff. And so was Bush's riff about more civility on Washington. The ideal candidate would have found a way to fuse both messages...
Bush has the appropriate view that issues of legislation, including abortion, should be left to the state legislatures and Congress to decide. It is a violation of our founding fathers' intent to allow an appointed body to legislate. In accordance with this original ideal, Bush would appoint justices who would return power to the states, empowering the people and local governments to rule...