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...Palestinians." Seideman was appalled. "Do you really want to kill them all?" she asked. "No," said Yael, "only the bad ones." Right now Israel's official policy is in line with Yael's letter, and that's disturbing to Seideman, who campaigned for the Peace Now movement until the birth of her three daughters left her with no time for activism...
There are seven ages in a man's life, the poet says, and you can see at least three of them already in George W. Bush's presidency. First came his strange, complicated birth, his narrow escape from a Florida swamp, a President uncertain from the start. Next came the innocent clarity of September and the burst of national unity. The attacks and their aftermath seemed to end all the confusion about who was in charge and showed us what Bush was capable of after all: strength, leadership, even vision...
...psychologist Carol Gilligan's book about adolescent girls, "In a Different Voice," became an influential international bestseller. In 1996, TIME named Gilligan, by then a Harvard professor, one of the 25 most influential people in the U.S. In May, Knopf will publish Gilligan's new book, "The Birth of Pleasure," which Kirkus calls "an intellectual tour de force." According to Gilligan's publisher, her new book "explores the ways that humans experience and express love. Tracing a lineage from classical mythology to our own intimate relationships, Gilligan shows us why love between a man and a woman is so often...
Everywhere one turns a rock legend is humbly crediting their musical birth and inspiration to Elvis’ music. Bob Dylan: “When I first heard Elvis’ voice I just knew that I wasn’t going to work for anybody and nobody was going to be my boss…Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail.” Jim Morrison: “Elvis is the best ever, the most original. He started the ball rolling for us all.” Chuck Berry...
West’s widely publicized fallout with Summers, coupled with a series of other incidents, has lit a fire in the collective heart of students and started a real campus-wide conversation. Not since the birth of the Afro-American studies department—which followed the University Hall takeover of 1969—has the University occupied such a prominent place on the national stage because of minority issues. Everybody is talking about West. Everybody has an opinion...