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...life story parallels that of Japan's postwar history: he grew up poor amid the ashes of World War II. He came of age during the postwar boom. He found himself during the bubble economy of the '80s and early '90s, when he relentlessly poked fun at a too-rigid society and rebelled against a benumbing hierarchy. And now, finally, like Japan itself, he has grown into a bloated, entertainment superpower, still funny, still possessing formidable hidden powers, but an epigone of what he once was and, in many ways, the embodiment of the rigid, patriarchy he used to despise...
...story. In this TV sketch, a pick-up truck decorated to look like a bull charges a matador. "Can I run the matador over?" the driver asked. Beat's quick response: "That would be funny." Beat thrives on humor as public humiliation, but also as a refuge from the rigid social strictures of Japan. "I was sick of all the clichEs," he says. "So I started making fun of them. If there was a slogan that called for treating elders with respect, I'd do a routine about treating them horribly...
...University has had a rich and tangled history regarding the central question of what it means to receive a liberal arts education. From the rigid system of requirements that existed during the college's earliest years, to the innovations regarding distribution requirements in 1945, to the eventual middle ground of the Core curriculum created in 1979, Harvard has experienced and effected an evolution in the conception of the ideal collegiate education. However, despite having noble aims, the most recent product of Harvard's philosophical debate over the question of general education--the Core--has failed to achieve the lofty goals...
Before shopping period has even ended, however, we are struck by the less exciting realities of undergraduate academic life: rigid requirements, a confusing and sometimes inadequate advising system and a want of meaningful faculty contact. We're reminded that Harvard is not a small liberal arts college. The great passion and sincere curiosity with which we had set out on our trip subside, and in their place we find a general indifference...
...Court in the 1978 University of California Regents v. Bakke case, is the model method toward which other schools should strive. Although Harvard acknowledges that race is one factor in the deliberation process, there is no explicit point system, meaning that an individual can be considered independently of any rigid scale. This allows for a more nuanced approach that places race within the context of an applicant's whole life experience...