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Early decision allows students to obtain a guaranteed place at the college of their choice as early as Nov. 1. However, the application requires a binding agreement to attend if accepted, which pressures students into making permanent choices before they are ready. And the pledge to attend is almost always...
But seriously, the usefulness of sarcasm bears some pondering. Why have humans developed this habit of saying one thing and meaning the opposite? To start with, there is the humor. For instance, a very funny sketch on the Dec. 1 episode of “Saturday Night Live?...
“[Summers] wanted to make clear that [Afro-American studies department members] would be treated like others,” one administrator said, meaning an end “to special treatment that Rudenstine gave them.”
It was an unfortunate piece of journalism. By midday, lower Manhattan was a smoking ruin, bombing the Pentagon had a new meaning, and revolutionary violence was no longer the subject of nostalgia. Our holiday from history, from seriousness of thought and purpose, was over.
If you're going to get a serious disease--and, unless you'd prefer to die violently and young, you're probably going to--Parkinson's is not your worst choice. It is progressive and, at the moment, incurable. But, like its victims, it tends to move slowly. It is...