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...make it seem that we are doing something, anything; we pat ourselves on the back, consciences assuaged, and we watch as intelligent Harvard undergrads go on to write impressive doctoral dissertations on peacekeeping at the Kennedy School. The words of Weber, although taken from a different context, are perhaps appropriate: how sad, that “this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved...
...Never, ever, write columns like this one. Or if you must, make sure it’s near the end of your term. Otherwise you might get fired...
Columnists who write for this esteemed page are only human. Not to be confused with humane, which describes our demeanor, or inhuman, which describes our prose. Human here means mortal—that is, we columnists eventually grow old with time. As the years pass, our prose starts to stumble and our foresight begins to dim. Once-sharp witticisms gradually resemble the oft-repeated yarns that put small children to sleep. Indeed, after only a few short years of writing, people refer to us as seniors. The term is fitting to both our age and our attitude. Like most senior...
...getting old. The twilight of my career with this old sheet is at hand and, to tell you the truth, I can’t think of a blasted thing to write about. Not that there isn’t a lot going on right now. The Progressive Student Labor Movement is once again rearing its ugly head. The new president of Harvard is making his rounds. Some guy from South Korea just won the Boston Marathon. But a serious column demands a rigorous mindset, and I’ll leave these stories to my underclass comrades...
Serbanescu said that her writing process contributed to the unattributed quotes. She said that she begins writing by finding sources on the Internet, and then constructing a "skeleton" of the article she intends to write from those Internet sources...