A visit to the Parks, to the Embankment gardens, or the smokiest of the suburbs, reveals the fact that among evergreens—evergreens by courtesy, everblacks in reality—those which have the thickest, glossiest leaves are, other things being equal, least affected.

Today's students are often painted with the generational brush of being grade-grubbing snowflakes, a prejudice accelerated by the 2014 publication of William Deresiewicz's Excellent Sheep.

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In a rare moment of newsmaking, Barry M. Meyer, the chairman of Warner Brothers, issued a sharp rebuke to the president of the Consumer Electronics Association, Gary Shapiro, who warned in January that antipiracy efforts could “smother” technological progress and said that “private conduct may be unauthorized, but that does not mean it is piracy.”