Dan's post below is predicated on a mistaken assumption: Larry Kramer didn't frame any of this in terms of being #1 in US News, it was the reporter who framed the issue that way. The only way to be #1 in US News is to out-spend Yale. End of story!
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“Freedom’s just another word for Je est un autre.”
Touché. And given the present thread, Rimbaud may have arrived rather more punctually than either of us had any right…
Correction to my post: it should have read “when I went to her home last summer”.
I first met Gabriele Taylor when I was a graduate student in philosophy at St. Anne’s, studying for the B.Phil.…
Dear Roger of Invisible America, Your remarks towards the end of this comment about Nat Goldhaber (I’ve got a friend…
A remembered Dreyfus remark on the Maharishi: I recall hearing Dreyfus say in a recorded lecture, perhaps twenty-five years ago,…
Dan's post below is predicated on a mistaken assumption: Larry Kramer didn't frame any of this in terms of being #1 in US News, it was the reporter who framed the issue that way. The only way to be #1 in US News is to out-spend Yale. End of story!
There are some errors (not surprising in something of this size!): down at the bottom of the journal list, among…