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Benjamin Heller '94 suggests in his letter to the editor (March 23, 1999) that it's an open question whether students would benefit more from the the presence of resident tutors or from the space tutors occupy. As I teach the students in my economics sophomore tutorial, if it is an open question, we should do a little cost-benefit analysis...
...think the safe space idea has some promise," Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 wrote in an e-mail message. "But we need to understand its purpose better and what other on-campus function it could effectively be linked with...
Forgoing a predictable chronological narrative, the documentary presents itself thematically. The first segment, grandiloquently titled "Heaven and Earth," spends an hour chronicling Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic, and a second hour examining the era of space exploration. Another segment gives us a picture of America's rebellious spirit through the stories of Martin Luther King Jr. and Elvis Presley. A particularly affecting installment, airing on April 3, depicts America as an imperfect global paterfamilias, and looks at the country's efforts to preserve democracy in the Great War at the beginning of the century and again, ambiguously...
What's really missing here is the social history that enlivens Jennings' book--a peek into the ways in which legions of real people who never made it to big-ticket events like wars or treaty signings or space-shuttle launches actually spent their days and nights. Perhaps that's something for the Lifetime channel to take...
...same thing applies to their reflections on such matters as artificial intelligence, alternative realities and the space-time continuum. You feel they have at least read the better magazine articles on these topics--enough to provide a little more subtext than we expect to find in enterprises like The Matrix. Besides, there's real wit in their presentation of the Zionist oracle (who turns out to be a motherly black lady baking cookies in an old-fashioned kitchen), and real sexiness in Carrie-Anne Moss as super-buff Trinity, leading Neo to his destiny. Given a budget that encourages their...