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...imagine the scenery. It's exactly the same as Macbeth, where you say 'Is this a dagger which I see before me?' There is no dagger. And I never saw the Balrog, I was shouting at a yellow tennis ball!" He jokingly experiments with the line Shakespeare might write today, "Is this a Balrog I see before me?" HE IS PROUD of his film record, and strongly believes in The X-Men's social agenda. "It's about what you do if you're different. How do you make society better? Do you try to destroy it, or change...
Monday evening brought good news in the form of a personal e-mail from one Harry R. Lewis (bcarroll@fas.harvard.edu) that reads as follows: “Dear Madeleine, I write to encourage you...” Well, I needn’t quote the rest of it. He was writing to alert me to a special privilege I have as an enrolled Harvard College student: the “unique opportunity” to take an online survey, which upon completion will enter me into a random contest for all sorts of neat prizes, like meal tickets...
Next time Harry R. Lewis writes to encourage me, I have half a mind to write back and tell him about the rattlings and my own vague unease, which I expect to persist in the face of whatever institutional changes are in the works. In any case, they are likely to be small ones, since Harvard doesn’t change easily, and it doesn’t change much. Yet some things are bound to change: modern students are the great 20th century innovation, at once the product and the customer. If this is the case, I wonder what...
...write when I really want to write,” she explains, but “it’s essential to read what you don’t want to read.” She writes because she’s “okay at it,” in the same way an athlete keeps running the 400 meters not out of any sheer joy in the endeavor but because he can do it well...
...Research and development (R&D) constitutes a relatively small part of the budgets of the large drug companies,” Relman and Angell write. “Prices…could be lowered substantially without coming close to threatening the R&D budgets of drug companies...