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...after its distortion last fall. I cannot agree; we have spent four years at Harvard, and the best thing that Harvard has taught me is to engage the issue. If we do not argue with some substance, if we do not take the time to consider, to listen, to open our minds in new ways, to test our assumptions and others, we are missing out on the one big principle we should have learned: nothing is beyond question, and the basis of an academic community is the willingness to listen. Jihad does not have to have a violent meaning. Words...
...noted the need for graduates with a rigorous training in analytical thinking to be able to put aside their training and listen their hearts...
...musical tastes, he says he likes a lot of Irish and folk music, and Hindi music as well. Commercial music, he says, feels processed and “very refined,” but English or American or Irish folk is “less processed. When you listen to folk music, it still has that raw edge—like biting into sugar cane...
...have all these idiotic athletes in my gov classes,” one declared loudly enough for the entire room to hear. “They come in to section straight from practice and haven’t done any of the reading, and I have to listen to their ridiculous comments...
...corps of friends and peers who encouraged them to succeed for the sake of the team. They would return from road trips with inside jokes and stories of the weekend’s achievements and team pranks, and I—trying desperately to fit in—would listen and laugh without understanding what they were talking about...