-- Ross Douthat in 2005, pimping himself to the New York Times.
Friday, February 13, 2015
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The bottle is then riddled, so that the lees settles in the neck of the wine bottle... Manual riddling is still done for Prestige Cuvées in Champagne... mechanised riddling equipment (a gyropalette) is used instead. (Wikipedia)
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It may be hard to get into Harvard, but it's easy to get out without learning much of enduring value at all.
That says more about Douthat than it does about Harvard... and I'm a "better dead than crimson" kinda guy.
it's easy to get out without learning much of enduring value at all.
Equally true of life in general, for those who insist on remaining incurious.
I'm with B^4 on both matters.
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Alas, his tabula is still rasa.
Longtime Harvard-hater myself. We'd all have gotten more out of it than young Ross did, though, if only the government instead of young Ross's papa was paying the bills.
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