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Crush Camp, where laypeople get to be part of wine country's fall harvest, is the most sophisticated addition yet to the pantheon of self-improvement weekends for the BlackBerry set. It joins BMW Performance Driving School, Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp and the original wish-fulfillment adventure, the one in which Cal Ripken puts on a convincing face and tells you that you've got a pretty good swing. Only instead of bond traders, Crush Camp is packed with people who take private yoga classes and won this trip at a benefit auction for the Junior League...
...same type of irony can easily be found in Christianity. How much violence has been committed to defend teachings that advise turning the other cheek? It is apparent from history and current events that Christians, Muslims and Jews all believe in the same God. One can only wish he had been more consistent in advocating nonviolence...
...outsiders presume these people are in denial of their grief, or that they?re ?acting healed? too soon. For those who respond this way, normalcy is not healing itself - it?s merely a conduit to healing. Their sadness should not be measured by their ability to function. We may wish we could make a grand gesture, but getting shoes on and out the door may be testament enough...
...professors is not enough.Students, too, should focus their efforts on the real wrong that is being perpetuated by Solomon, not on auxiliary concerns. We applaud the efforts of Lambda, the Law School’s gay rights activist group, to protest DADT purposefully and effectively, and we wish that more undergraduates would follow Lambda’s lead. Regrettably, some undergraduates have chosen instead to hold aimless blanket protests of the military at large, including the inane recent “die-in” outside last Friday’s career fair, rather than focus on the military?...
...intellectualize the subject of race to the point at which it becomes completely divorced from both historical and present context. Some students may feel that the best policy is to look at the subject of race from a purely historical and intellectual standpoint—perhaps with a genuine wish to divest racial thinking of its power—while ignoring the very real and very present societal and emotional consequences of the subject at hand. However, this is often the very thought process that contributes to the type of barefaced insensitivity that was on display...