College coaches may send envelopes full of money via Emery Worldwide, professional coaches may be found guilty of sexual harassment forcing their organization to pay $11.5 million in damages, and international coaches may enter a non-disabled team in the Special Olympics but one person can always be relied upon for his leadership is Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise. During a recently rerun episode of The Next Generation, Chief Engineer La Forge and Commander Riker submitted and unsatisfactory performance review for Lieutenant Barclay to Picard. The captain ordered the pair to reconsider their evaluation of the socially awkward lieutenant. It was …
Common Sense
Common Sense begins with the opinion that representative democracy is simply the extension of the Welch House meeting where all residents would convene to determine matters of utmost importance. This small meeting expands to become the Trinity College Meeting, which becomes the Joint College Meeting. Finally, the population becomes so large that it is impractical for everyone to convene in one place at a single time and individual constituencies elect one of their own to represent them. If the representative is typical of the citizens, he will faithfully advance their interests — because they are his interests. If the representative …
Fish in a Flock and Sheep in a School
Natural Light Visit to Paris so far this weekend has included: Musée du Louvre, Tour d’Eiffel, Musée d’Orsay, Espace Dali, and Musée Picasso. At the Louvre, everyone packed certain exhibition halls to see the Mona Lisa, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, the Venus de Milo, and a few other prominent pieces. At Orsay, everyone crowded the Vincent Van Gogh rooms. Why? Works such as Liberty Leading the People by Delacroix because of its cultural commentary about the French Revolution or Hommage to Cézanne by Denis because of its ironical retelling of impressionism. Or countless other individual pieces. Art is for …
The Pope Tried to Dunk…
Cave des Roches Tunnel My group visited four locations today and witnessed several instances of how people love to shoot themselves in the foot. But otherwise, the places were all very nice and pretty. La Cave des Roches: Despite being told that there were 120 kilometres of limestone tunnels (blue foot mushroom tunnel shown) spread out over seven levels and that someone got lost last week, members of the group continued to press on without the guide in order to take photos, doubling the length of the tour. Les Caves Monmousseau: Luckily, some of the students were impatiently waiting for …