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...wanted more," says Carlo McCormick, an editor at a culture and fashion monthly who was the host of LSD parties in New York City in the '80s. "At this point with the current crop of drugs, you're set for the night." Others have a wider perspective. "If you look historically at a large population that has been using a stimulant like cocaine," says James Nielsen, a 26-year veteran with the Drug Enforcement Administration, "they will then go on to a depressant like heroin...
...voting rights, Guinier's writing is generally held in high regard. "She's the best legal scholar working in voting rights today," says Professor Kathryn Abrams of Cornell law school. "In a scholarly sense, I don't consider her outside the mainstream." That assessment is more strenuously debated in wider legal circles. Says Stuart Taylor Jr. of Legal Times, who has studied Guinier's writings: "She's more radical than her supporters would have you believe. Her proposals seem to be premised on a bleak vision of America as a land of 'subjugated minorities' and a racist white majority...
...diversity is not one-sided. By introducing a wider range of viewpoints into the community, Harvard has increased the number of potential disagreements, and of potential views that some might find offensive. Even in the most sensitive, most self-conscious environment, conflicts that stem from differing views are unavoidable...
This is not to deny that academics dominate daily life at Harvard In my four year here my eyes have opened ever wider. I have thought and puzzled and breathed literature and politics and theory and life--had an "ejaculation of the soul" as Flaubert once said--with new insights and knowledge and curiosity exploding nearly every...
...terms. To young women -- and many men -- that came close to calling for a new covenant. Marriage is not necessarily an attractive prospect to an educated woman, especially one of the growing number who, like Owada, have lived part of their childhood abroad and have a wider and more cosmopolitan experience than most Japanese...