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Remembering Greatness in Full

By Thomas B. Cotton  • 

Pedestrian lists of the "Century's Greatest" are all the rage these days, but yesterday we celebrated truly the greatest man


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Editorial Notebook: All Glory to the Golfers

By Thomas B. Cotton  • 

If you paid undue attention to your classes last week, you unfortunately neglected the greatest event in sports: the Ryder


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Coda

By Thomas B. Cotton  • 

In my years at Harvard, I have been called many things, few of them pleasant. If you think I have


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Repoliticizing Politics (and Sex)

By Thomas B. Cotton  • 

Regardless of personal or partisan opinion, one must admit that President Clinton has fostered a "national dialogue" superbly. Talk shows


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Liberals Phone Home

By Thomas B. Cotton  • 

The small things in life often matter most, for they lack the frivolous and the superfluous that can obscure the


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Defining Diversity Down

By Thomas B. Cotton  • 

Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, made a most peculiar statement in The Crimson last Friday (March 13)


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Compassion Gets the Trophy

By Thomas B. Cotton  • 

ESPN recently launched a new venture in cable television, the Classic Sports Network (CSN). The premise of CSN seems strikingly


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One Cheer for Apathy

By Thomas B. Cotton  • 

Walter Rathenau called the great wave of humanity that is each generation "the vertical invasion of the barbarians." Every 20


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The Lesson of Lewinsky

By Thomas B. Cotton  • 

Bill Clinton's latest imbroglio carries a valuable lesson in self-government. This lesson speaks to the fundamental presumption of democratic self-government,


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Gridiron Honor

By Thomas B. Cotton  • 

S ince my thesis writing was less than prodigious this past fall, I spent last week at Harvard while my

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