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Want to Age Gracefully? Dress Like a Lady 0
- Culture
- April 17, 2017
“When I was fifteen years old, I wanted to be a vamp—with a black veil, and a cigarette holder,” Carolina Herrera recalled in an interview with W magazine. “Because I was watching all these fantastic movies with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich and all these very glamorous ladies, so I wanted to look like that.”
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Wellesley Student Paper Defends Censorship… with Horrible Grammar 0
- Education
- April 17, 2017
Critics of political correctness allege that America’s college students are now so immersed in ideological political activism that they are not learning very much. How to write English, for example. Editors at the Wellesley College student newspaper, The Wellesley News, recently wrote an editorial defending the intolerance now sweeping the nation’s universities. Unfortunately, in their
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On Syria and the Confusion of Consuming News in the Age of Trump 0
- Culture
- April 17, 2017
We were warned. What would happen? Who could we trust? In the era of fake news, “alternative facts,” insult, and innuendo, when the time came…who was to be believed? In the fog of war–even of limited war and tactical skirmishes–the truth splinters into half-truths, conflicting conclusions, and incomplete accounts. On Tuesday, April 11,2017, the Washington
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Charles Murray Was Just Vindicated by Two Cornell Professors 0
- Culture
- April 17, 2017
Professor Charles Murray seems to have become public enemy number one on college campuses. Even before he was shut down by students at Middlebury College in March, Murray was viewed with suspicion for his scholarship on the Bell Curve. People only vaguely aware of Murray perhaps could not be blamed for viewing this political lightening
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Gallup asked Americans why they go to church. It’s not for the music.1
- Culture
- April 17, 2017
On Good Friday, Gallup published results of a survey that asked respondents why they go to church (or some other place of worship). Some fifteen hundred adults across the nation were asked to which degree these seven things were important to them: 1. Sermons or talks that teach you more about scripture; 2. Sermons or
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The Secret to Living a Life of Mastery 0
- Entertainment
- April 13, 2017
In his classic book on practice, Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment, George Leonard observes how many of us have conditioned ourselves to think life is an “endless series of climatic moments.” Writing in the early 90s, Leonard observed television commercials, “The race is run and won; beautiful young people jump up and
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