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This campus suffers from a problem of apathy. As we all sit here in the comfortable confines of Harvard University, we forget that not everyone is as fortunate as we are. We see bad things happening all around us, and yet we do nothing about it. On Friday, the four New York City police officers who shot and killed Amadou Diallo were cleared of any wrongdoing. They were found not guilty of murder, or even of using excessive force in shooting an unarmed man 41 times. At a meeting held last night in Sever, there weren't even enough people...
...problem is perspective. Spend three months as a Harvard student and you've got less real-world perspective than Michael Jackson Jr. (or, as he is affectionately known around the Jackson house, "Not the Monkey"). Of course, your cocky perspective from high school wasn't right either. Only Harvard students keep the same career goal, "quarterback/poet/sorcerer/King of Illinois" from first through twelfth grade. But it changed for the worse during your first year in Cambridge...
...from the time he was 16. The saddest day of his life was the day he left the Navy. So I'm sure he would be proud, but I think there would be some of it he would just not feel familiar with." Bush doesn't have that problem. His father knows all about life-and-death politics--and so does...
...training and daily practice and sacrifices the fundamental nature of sumo. And when this is out in the public, it will threaten the existence of the Japan Sumo Association." Later the official directly addresses the wrestlers: "You wrestlers have a look on your face that says, 'What's the problem? This has been around for a long time.' But at some point, we need to put an end to this." Itai's allegations may be a start...
...have no problem with pornography. Pornography has got me through some of my most difficult times: my prepubescence, my pubescence, my postpubescence, my post-postpubescence and whatever they call the part I'm in now. But I hate the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED swimsuit issue. And it's not just because they won't let me be host of that TNT Making of special--though, if they want to end my negative campaign, that will probably...