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...Isaiah Washington was simply an unfortunate use of a cliché or evidence that even those who take it upon themselves to analyze gaffes are still subject to perpetrating them. I agree with Kinsley that we should all be able to shrug off the stupid things people say (or write), but I found his use of a potent image of slavery in this context to be ironic, to say the least. Michael Zimmer Los Angeles...
Modern American culture was dawning too. Walt Whitman and Nathaniel Hawthorne had started work on Leaves of Grass and The Scarlet Letter, respectively, and Herman Melville was preparing to write Moby Dick. Henry David Thoreau, laying the groundwork for environmentalism, was altogether disgusted by the new Zeitgeist and gimcracks. "I delight to come to my bearings," he writes in Walden, which he began in the late '40s, "not walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place ... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sit thoughtfully while it goes by. What...
...announced yesterday a new study administered by the Institutional Research office that offers freshmen, sophomores, and juniors $50 to write a 90-minute essay and respond to a brief survey evaluating their own writing skills...
...Harris, who informed students that the water was, in fact, from a broken sprinkler pipe. Harris, who is also the Wolfson professor of Jewish studies, said last night that Harvard would reimburse students for any damanged goods, and Fure told students that Kargere, the resident dean, could write extensions for those students writing theses or with upcoming midterms. Harris said that a few hours after the incident, maintenance professionals and Harvard University Police Department officers had determined that the damage was limited, and that non-affected students would be allowed to return to their rooms. “There were...
...editors: I just wanted to write to thank you for running the opinion piece on Cage-Free Eggs (“Cage Free Food,” editorial, Mar. 7). It really means a lot to see the Crimson take such a strong moral stance as it has done in this case; not only will this spread a greater awareness of the obvious ethical choice regarding battery cage vs. cage-free, but I feel that many people will be convinced by your accurate and telling article. Many people have a great amount of respect for the Crimson, and I really...