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President Summers seemed to mistake the campus’s persistent invocation of the precious term “dialogue?? for a bona fide invitation to frank discussion. Of course, he was wrong—“dialogue?? is a vacuity hiding behind a pretty-sounding facial meaning. Such terms have blossomed into wide, unexamined usage at Harvard in our times, and my classmates can be thankful they are graduating from this realm of self-contradicting doublespeak: Where “dialogue?? means the neutering of conversation for sensitivity’s sake...
...racial tension of the recent past and the Foundation’s role in ameliorating it. Through a wide range of events, the Foundation has not only helped to create a safe place for students of all backgrounds, but also it has helped to facilitate understanding through dialogue??a process that we hope has resulted in the bridging of differences through a realization of commonality...
...most Palestinians want peace, but a Palestinian leader brave and courageous to say enough is enough needs the legitimacy of the Arab world.” Gillerman specifically highlighted the need for outsiders to view the region from a different perspective. Stating the need for “healthy dialogue?? on campuses, he argued that outsiders would be more eager to see change in the region if Israel’s government highlighted the country’s positive attributes. “As Israelis, we should try to bring awareness to others about the country we really...
...it’s time to move on to the explication (you will probably want to use the word “explication” in your paper). To start, put the texts in “dialogue?? with one another. You only read one text? Put it into dialogue with previous readings, with the sole lecture you’ve been to, or with Karl Marx/Jacques Derrida/Ferdinand de Saussure (choose one). Hell, put it into dialogue with itself. The more ridiculous the comparison, the more explication you’ll need to justify it, and the closer...
Today, a visitor and guest of the University, the Dutch parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali, is greeted with posters for two events, at the Kennedy School and at the Center for Government and International Studies, both bearing a lengthy disclaimer that while the organizers welcome “dialogue?? and all that good stuff, these events should not be taken as endorsement of Hirsi Ali’s views, nor should she be considered “to be representative for the Dutch public opinion on these issues.” It may be worth reminding the community that...