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...despite every indignity and scoff, forgiveness does not just endure but thrives. As Mitchell Wright instinctively realized, there is not only a religious impetus to forgive but also therapeutic, social and practical reasons to do so. This applies to victims of crimes as well as to those who must deal with the slings and arrows of more common misfortunes--unfaithfulness, betrayal, ungratefulness and mere insult. In the past two years, scientists and sociologists have begun to extract forgiveness and the act of forgiving from the confines of the confessional, transforming it into the subject of quantifiable research. In one case...
...week, as I sat in my Anthro seminar, lost as usual in daydreams of Paris and Milan, I was struck with a peculiar epiphany. Surprisingly enough, my biased idealization of European culture translates quite nicely into a self-serving comparison between Europe and the Quad. Though initially you may scoff at this unlikely analogy, it is a convenient means to convince myself and others that my life in Currier is second in glamour only to life in the City of Lights. Really, the evidence abounds...
Built in 1970 just as the concrete of Mather House was being poured at the opposite end of campus, Currier was the last House that Radcliffe built before coeducation. Located next to the under-appreciated Hilles Library, Currier's four towers scoff at the river House entryway system, offering sociable hallways and a large number of singles. The House's renowned 10-Man suite is infamous for its lively social scene...
...Built in 1970 just as the concrete of Mather House was being poured at the opposite end of campus, Currier was the last House that Radcliffe built before coeducation. Located next to the under-appreciated Hilles Library, Currier's four towers scoff at the river House entryway system, offering sociable hallways and a large number of singles. The House's renowned 10-Man suite is infamous for its lively social scene...
...school hackers scoff at the notion that businesses can stop them. "Corporations can't teach hacking," says Emmanuel Goldstein, editor of the hacker quarterly 2600. "It has to be in you." Perhaps. But if a few more firms learn to avoid becoming toast, that's no bad thing...