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...public are yoked together. When you are polite not just to your friends and family, but to everyone with whom you come into contact, a network of trust is established in a society. Trust is the bedrock upon which social and economic exchange is built. Where trust is absent, suspicion rules; you deal only with those you know firsthand, which atomizes society and diminishes the range of human experience...
Over intersession, one of my roommates flew to Buenos Aires to visit our temporary Argentine. My roommate said that the city was wonderful–“It’s like a combination of Mexico City and Paris”—and that our absent roommate was happy there. In the pictures my roommate brought back she looks happy. The tilt of her head is more coquettish than I remember, the cut of her clothes more sophisticated, her hair glossier, curlier. Because the pictures are a little overexposed, her smiles are undifferentiated bright crescents...
...captain Beverly Whelan, sophomore Laura Maludzinski and junior Alasdair McLean-Foreman—all of whom have been some of Harvard’s best runners since cross country season—were absent for a more intense meet at Notre Dame this weekend...
...Hamburg cell - which excluded Mzoudi. Prosecutors wanted the US to produce Binalshibh for live cross-examination, or at least cough up the full transcript of his interrogation, so they could try to prove him a liar. But fearing their intelligence work would be compromised, the Americans refused. Absent proof of Mzoudi's knowing complicity, the court had to release him. It's a good thing for Mzoudi he doesn't live in Britain. As he was being acquitted last week, 14 men, foreigners like Mzoudi, were languishing in high-security prisons in the U.K., facing indefinite detention as suspected terrorists...
When war is acceptable, it is only as the endpoint of the collective judgment of a broad-based, trustworthy alliance of parties. Despite Mather’s claims to the contrary, this is sadly absent in the present conflict. Louie (of Louie’s) and three or four guys in a DeWolfe blocking group do not a coalition make...