Word: thoughts
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...book does not know what it wants to be--is it a football book, a picture of a small Southern town, or something else? Clearly, it is possible to review The Best There Ever Was without mentioning much about football. It seems as if Bradley simply thought the sports setting would be catchy. Instead, it leaves us feeling confused and in a state of limbo, much like the feelings which Bradley's townspeople experience every...
...Yale Medical School?" demanded one interviewer. A reasonable question, except that he was not from Yale Medical School. For 30 harrowing minutes, I tried to explain my ignorance of my interviewer's beloved alma mater. Finally, he asked me if I had any questions. I asked him what he thought about the medical campus I was visiting...
...last meeting, some professors said they thought an international relations certificate would have little meaning, while others greeted the Rhodes-like scholarship proposal with skepticism. Others said they were reluctant to have Harvard create a scholarship modeled after what they said was the "Anglo-centric vision" of the Rhodes model...
When David A. Plotz, in his lively opinion piece last spring "`Politically Correct' Thought Control" claimed that the left wing groups "have reached virtually identical liberal conclusions on what is `correct'," he was wrong. Most of the groups he singled out don't even have positions on the PC causes celebre...
Which brings us to the startling revelation that the center of Harvard's political thought is left of America's. That does not mean that those on campus are sheeplike, unworthy or stupid. And it doesn't mean they are totalitarian. Instead, they happen to hold the majority view that is worthy of respect. They are people worthy of being asked not "Why don't you think?" but "What do you think?" In asking this, we have moved beyond...