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The general conclusion of these points--that universities will best achieve their objectives if they select the most academically able students (with proper allowance for the representation of groups)--goes against our general liberal intuitions. After all, what of the intuitively pleasing intangibles--like leadership, motivation, or simple effort--that...
Cohen is a superior scholar and his case studies make for stimulating reading. Particularly noteworthy are the chapters on 17th century figures including an especially pleasing section on Vesalius, Paracelsus and Harvey. The chapters on Darwin and Freud, and the saga of sea floor spreading, a revolution in earth science...
At their recent Boston debut at the Channel. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions put on a well-received show featuring the pleasing blend of guitarists Cole. Neil Clark and bassist Lawrence Donegan. The band is still a little stiff live, but Cole's cryptically personal songs bridge the band's...
MORE THAN AN attack on these suppositions, however, Backfire is an indictment of the bureaucratic culture that actually involved the United States in the Vietnam War, and its conduct throughout the decade of massive American involvement. Baritz is an academic-turned-university bureaucrat, and he explains Vietnam policy as the...
Like most postmodernists, Hollein says he is not a postmodernist. But as the Pritzker citation declared, he is "one who with wit and eclectic gusto draws upon the traditions of the New World as readily as upon those of the Old." Says Hollein: "I was never afraid to use materials...