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...Ellis lie? For the most part, his stories weren't heroic but put him--and through him, his students--on the scene. It was sometimes a florid stage, as when Ellis told of seeing a burly comrade reading Emily Dickinson and weeping on the battlefield. "There is a classroom persona you have as a teacher that's not quite you," says Mount Holyoke's dean of faculty, Donal O'Shea. "There's an element of great teaching that's theater. And Professor Ellis was expert at that." Fellow baby boomers speculate that Ellis gave in to a generational tendency...
These bigger numbers remain relevant because no future Congress wants to commit political suicide by allowing this tax cut to expire. Simply stated, all of Washington knows many of these provisions are in effect permanent. The Big Lie is that it costs only $1.35 trillion. Since the real cost is much greater, future Administrations--and Congresses--will have to deal with a political nightmare: the real possibility of deficit spending a decade from now as baby boomers begin to retire en masse and sap the Social Security and Medicare systems...
...Eight a.m. (eastern time) approached. Computer generated animations showed the death house rooms and the leather gurney on which McVeigh would lie, to go to sleep, as if to have his appendix out - but not to wake. There was an atmosphere of subdued media circus - not satisfactorily macabre, however, since the entire performance was concealed behind a weird scrim of discretion and vagueness, none of us knowing exactly the moment when Timothy McVeigh died. His life winked out unobserved by the millions. This was capital punishment as a sort of Zen, the sound of one hand clapping...
...wondered, before the first JENNA'S CRY FOR HELP story appears? Not long enough. See Friday's New York Daily News. And yet the coverage so far has been more restrained than it would have been if the name on the police report had been Chelsea Clinton. Conservatives lie in wait for evidence of feeble family values and general Democratic decadence. Newt Gingrich blamed the squishy morals of the left when Susan Smith drowned her two young sons in a South Carolina lake. The press gave Chelsea Clinton a lot of room when she arrived at the tender...
Many of these decisions lie far in the future. To date, Summers has wisely chosen to immerse himself in the life of the University-—visiting undergraduates at Springfest, in House dining halls and in student group offices. Summers should continue such efforts and should visit classes and sections as well—to experience them, if briefly, as a student would. (Who knows what changes to Harvard life might ensue if the president were forced to sit through a typical Core section?) However, soon it will be Summers’ responsibility to talk as well as listen...