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...would be wiser to listen to President Abraham Lincoln, who said: “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present…As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country...

Author: By Alan A. Khazei | Title: A New Era of Big Citizenship | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...make college life “whatever you choose it to be” and instead identify a common end as worth pursuing, whether that’s in or outside of the classroom.  It’s for this reason that college undergraduates are no wiser than prefrosh—spending time here doesn’t really tell each individual what Harvard life is all about. Instead, Harvard purposefully structures its attitudes and educational rhetoric to comment only on each person’s life as it matters to the student, but certainly...

Author: By Gregory A. Dibella | Title: Prefrosh at Heart | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...Lombardi defended the decision not to remove Murphy from the "clerical state," saying the priest was "elderly and in very poor health" and that he was "living in seclusion, and no allegations of abuse had been reported in over 20 years." Lombardi explained that the doctrinal office thought it wiser that church authorities in Wisconsin simply restrict Murphy's ministry and require him to take responsibility for his actions. Lombardi pointed out that earlier charges brought against Murphy by civil authorities were eventually dropped and insisted that, despite the Times allegation that the Vatican fought to keep the Murphy details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After U.S. Abuse Revelation, the Vatican Fires Back | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

...said. “I’m totally for people learning how to use the software themselves.” VanMiddlesworth himself started giving advice about how to get started, and nearly every DJ reported that they learned their art under the tutelage of an older, wiser, charitable DJing friend. For the sake of their art, and for the sake of good parties everywhere, student DJs take it upon themselves to continue spreading the good word in every way they...

Author: By Alexander E. Traub, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Dutiful DJ | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...read Slow Motion, her memoir recounting a misspent youth as the cokehead mistress of a rich creep and the car accident that nearly robbed her of both parents, you know Shapiro has a heightened sense of drama. She is wiser now but still can't stop obsessing over what could have been, whether it be a medical crisis her son survived as an infant or a terrorist attack. (She put her Brooklyn brownstone on the market a few days after Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Serenity Now | 2/15/2010 | See Source »

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