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...final thrust of the meeting was centered around ways to shift the portrayal of women in popular music. Possible solutions brought up included boycotts and protest...
...scale in favor of ROTC—that once we associate ourselves with the military, its backwardness as an institution will be more easily remedied. It would be better, though, if in debating the issue, Harvard administrators and students could show a bit of humility. Let us shift our focus away from the abundant gifts We of the Ivory Tower can bestow upon the unenlightened and instead fix our eyes squarely on the simple question of duty before...
...share the rest of our lives with. We don’t expect to meet our lifemates as undergraduates and we feel no real regret when relationships that made us content and complete while at school do not make the cut in the world outside. As our priorities shift and our values applaud professional success louder than romantic success, love—of at least the college variety—is simply no longer a reason to make life-changing decisions. Truth be told, it most often won’t even convince us to alter our cover letter location...
Something else happened though, when the dust had settled enough so that particle masks were no longer mandatory. The fundamental shift in funniness, it was nowhere to be found. Irony is alive and well and more people are paying attention to it than ever before, say practitioners of the art like Kurt Andersen `76 (co-founder of Spy, former editor-and-chief of New York magazine and co-founder of Inside.com) and Andy Borowitz `80 (a regular contributor to the New Yorker and NPR’s Weekend Edition) because in every time of darkness, dark humor comforts where platitudes...
TIME.com: Has there been a qualitative shift in military operations in Afghanistan in recent days, with reports of the heavy ground-attack AC-130 plane being used over Kandahar on Tuesday, for example...