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Midwestern sensibilities, puerile humor, and visionless writing were all things we tried to bring to Harvard, but they were rejected. Nevertheless it was a lot of fun trying to force ourselves upon you, no matter how times you socked us in the nuts and dove for a blue phone panic button like it was the peak of the Aggro Crag. Though six out of seven days we fall asleep in the basement storage room of some anonymous Yard dormitory feeling like the boy who just placed third to two girls on Global Guts, it’s that seventh...
...Curricular Review would be well served by initiating a substantive dialogue about the details and finer points of proposals with a broader audience. Presenting the community with specific plans and putting them up for discussion might help transform what has thus far been a relatively legless and rather visionless operation. When audiences are part of an ongoing dialogue and informed about the true status of decisions, they are far more likely to be invested in the outcome. Otherwise, the Review can all too easily descend into—as at times it has resembled—an empty public relations...
Feral fund raising, negative ads and visionless governance are not unique to Sacramento, nor are the efforts of right-wing populist extremists to use constitutional gimmickry to subvert democracy. The impeachment of Bill Clinton was part of the latter trend, as is the current effort in the Texas state legislature--orchestrated by Congressman Tom DeLay--to redraw district lines. As a nation, we seem to be losing the habits of civility and citizenship. Public life is becoming a pricey boutique, catering only to special interests and political eccentrics. The California recall is goofy, irresponsible...
...Feral fund raising, negative ads and visionless governance are not unique to Sacramento, nor are the efforts of right-wing populist extremists to use constitutional gimmickry to subvert democracy. The impeachment of Bill Clinton was part of the latter trend, as is the current effort in the Texas state legislature-orchestrated by Congressman Tom DeLay-to redraw district lines. As a nation, we seem to be losing the habits of civility and citizenship. Public life is becoming a pricey boutique, catering only to special interests and political eccentrics. The California recall is goofy, irresponsible...
...Western Hemisphere, Kissinger says the overall question is how the U.S. can bring about a regime of free-trading, internally stable and externally sated powers while preventing the emergence of rival blocs. Kissinger takes a fairly detailed approach, but again while the prescriptions are coated in allusions to visionless American policy, they are themselves either vague or totally mired in the details...