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...this is true, it is almost more disturbing. There is nothing wrong with having high standards for beauty. But women seem to be the only ones with such standards. For the most part, men—other than a few beleaguered metrosexuals—seem contented to look as though they have just fallen out of bed. Indeed, one begins to glimpse the absurdity of the double standard when one contemplates men making typically “female” remarks like, “I feel so fat today,” or, “What a great...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Effortlessly What? | 10/16/2007 | See Source »

...across the board and grant applicants are rebuffed because of an alleged want of funds, the UC is obligated to ensure that the shortfall actually exists. And when the leftovers add up to more than 10 percent of the UC’s entire budget, something is very, very wrong...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: Show Me The Money | 10/16/2007 | See Source »

...Mass Pike to New Haven. And if you take a plane over to Oxford, the birthplace of the university system, you won’t find anything more democratic there either. This—college education—is what autocracy looks like, and there’s nothing wrong with that...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: This is Autocracy! | 10/15/2007 | See Source »

...those who have brought us this far. Stop complaining about “limitations imposed from above” and start working cooperatively with the university to improve student life. Petersen’s speech at President Faust’s installation was an instance of using the wrong methods at the wrong place during the wrong time...

Author: By Caleb L. Weatherl | Title: An Embarrassing Representation | 10/14/2007 | See Source »

...correct, it would follow that the candidate who gets fired up, who speaks to the truth without fancy rhetoric and calculated, poll-tested language, and who seems direct and least evasive in the debates, would be the front-runner. I must be wrong...

Author: By Jarret A. Zafran | Title: Senator Evasive for President | 10/14/2007 | See Source »

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