Word: fears
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While vaguely absurd, this overpowering fear is a natural consequence of a mindset which treats Progress, with a capital "P," as the chief end and highest good to which a society can aspire. If Progress is Good, it follows that those who stand in the way of said Progress must be Bad, Wicked, and a dozen other capitalized synonyms for Absolute Evil. And while most of my fellow Harvardians would doubtless shy away from Alec Baldwin's scheme for the stoning of prominent conservatives, they sympathize with the spirit that animated his remarks, which was summed up admirably when...
...change. The tide turned," says one former College administrator familiar with the change from Moses to Nathans. (Most former assistant deans and administrators interviewed for this story requested anonymity because they say Nathans is influential in academic circles, and they fear negative repercussions if they criticize her publicly...
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a refugee is entitled to asylum if he or she faces "persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion." The legal standard is essentially the same for refugees like De Santiago seeking permission to stay, or what is officially known as the "withholding of removal." In recent years, the definition of a social group has stretched to encompass gender (women facing genital mutilation in Togo) and sexual orientation (gay men in Mexico). For the first time, the disabled...
...storytelling almost exclusively the rush of feelings that coursed through him as he recovered from surgery--his own postcards from the edge. On I Can't Move, he tells how a part of him flirted with death, almost welcoming it: "Want to get near it, close enough to fear it, close enough to hear it," he sings. In the marvelous, bouncing Babylon Feeling, he regrets that his own obsession with materialism may have led him straight to a hospital bed: "My heart is broke, my will is gone." And on Mercy on My Soul, he contemplates the afterlife: "Standing...
...late; I've come in after my shift in the cab. The bartender has green hair and the place is packed, still wall-to-wall with punks and assorted scumbags at 3 in the morning. Through the fog of cigarette smoke, at deafening volume, "Don't Fear the Reaper" plays on the jukebox. I realize for the first time what the words...