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There is a refrain repeated around Harvard again and again, and it goes something like this: Harvard is admitting too many dumb jocks and, somehow, athletic recruiting is deteriorating the quality of the student body. This view, as it is presented around campus, at times publicly, is pretty bold. It’s also wrong...
...values is necessary. This argument, however, can be strung too far. Its one thing for someone to say that the Western tradition is responsible for the primacy today of principles like democracy, liberty, and freedom. Its another to make a normative judgment and say that these principles are somehow better than other cultures values...
...appeared. “Grade not yet submitted,” according to the key. It was at this point that I started to get a little concerned. Weeks passed—no grade. I contacted my department, worried that not having the grade might affect my academic standing somehow. I was assured that it would not, which temporarily allayed my fears, if not my curiosity. As fall semester approached (and began) however, this curiosity took a turn towards skepticism. If my grade had already been determined, should it really take three months to submit the paperwork...
...this drawn-out allusion to Dante is purposeful, it raises the discomforting and rather absurd suggestion that New Yorkers are themselves somehow guilty for 9/11. But even if the allusion to Dante is unintentional – as one would hope – then McDonell’s treatment of 9/11 is still both mystifying and maddening. The terrorist attacks are portrayed as a sort of reflection of Mike’s personal tragedies. His mother and father, who form a dysfunctional and unloving couple, have cast a shadow over his childhood, and the fall of the Twin Towers...
...with civilians. Five dressed as women are snared, one with fake breasts. Others force children to hold their hands as though they are family. Some are caught; others are not. An intelligence officer says al-Qaeda is slipping to the east and behind them to the south, and "somehow--we don't know how"--cutting through the screen line to deploy to the west...