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...countless death threats. He has even been taken to the Israeli Supreme Court by a small-town mayor trying to silence his voice. The Supreme Court ultimately ruled in his favor, and most of the public has learned to embrace his music and tolerate his mannerisms, if not to accept his message. Amidst this controversy one thing is clear—the packed Paine Hall loved...
...department should offer Vaux a tenured position as an associate professor, which would allow him to continue to stay on without the term limits typically imposed at the associate level. Whether or not Vaux would accept such a position is uncertain, but it’s the least Harvard can do to keep him here. I must admit, I’m not sure why Vaux would want to be a member of a department where he feels so under-appreciated...
...reason America seems to accept this in Afghanistan - why the first handful of real, hostile-fire, helicopter-down U.S. military casualties in a decade hasn't come close to derailing public support for the fight they died in - is the attitude of men like Tommy Franks. Franks has mostly steered clear of the news media and stuck to the inside of his war room at CENTCOM headquarters at Fort MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, letting Rumsfeld be his front man and press-jouster...
...being “good at stuff.” The phrase “I have so much free time” is about as rare as a smallpox epidemic. We could endeavor to delve into the psyche of these students, but why bother? Let us just accept that some of our peers will forever strive beyond excellence, even if that means forgoing sanity, moderation and real happiness. If you are one of those people, you need not read on. If you have always felt deep down that there is no need to be “good...
...work hard. And penalties and rules by their nature need someone to enforce them. As Summers explained in a recent interview with The Crimson, “It’s essential to the doctrine of civil disobedience that those who…violate laws and break rules accept the consequences of that.” After all, what does protest mean if it costs you nothing to protest? The point is that you feel strongly enough about something unjust that you are willing to defy it and make a statement—like civil rights activists sitting...