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...What is hip-hop's greatest strength and greatest weakness?It's greatest strength is its ability to inspire young people. Its greatest weakness is the fact that people don't understand their voices. They have powerful voices but many who could be inspired don't understand their voices. The poets have always been misunderstood. They say things about struggle and poverty and people think its somehow attacking them. They make calls for help and people kind of miss that...
...Harvard’s director of community relations for Boston, Kevin A. McCluskey ’76, said that Harvard must understand the needs of the community in order to make the move across the Charles successful, noting that “the things that are most important to the neighborhood and the things most important to Harvard have a lot of overlap...
...most damaging not to Obama's candidacy - although the candidate will surely endure yet another round of scrutiny regarding his relationship to the minister and his positions on Wright's views - but to Wright's own message. Because he is right when he says that most Americans don't understand the black church and that their resulting confusion and fear contributes to a racial divide...
...born into Hasidic families. (They call themselves bal-chuva- "those who return" to the faith.) Emboldened by drink and by their warmth, I take the opportunity to ask the questions I'd always wanted to ask about Hasidism: What is it like? Why the clothes? I don't quite understand some of the more thoughtful answers about the second coming of Moses and Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. But I know Harry Potter, even if I never saw its Jewish significance...
...dual cosmology of Harry Potter and the Chosen People. Jews, he explains, are the wizards. The non-Jews are the muggles. And Israel's wizards are engaged in a kind of invisible spiritual warfare (just like in Rowling's books) that most muggles can't even see, much less understand. Rowling may be a muggle, says Adam, but she knew what she was doing. Why else would a yeshiva like Hogwart's be so central to their lives? Why would the power of naming and names be so important to both Jews and wizards? He offers further corollaries: Harry...