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...there ever were any existential fear felt, it is gone today," he says. "There is concern at each new act of anti-Semitism and keen attention paid to how French society reacts to them. Often, we feel reaction in the rest of France is largely in phase with ours...
...self-destructive act, oddly enough, is a sort of legal tradition in Ireland. As early as the 8th century, villagers aired their grievances and settled disputes by fasting on the doorsteps of their wrongdoers until they were publicly shamed into doing the right thing. The IRA resurrected the practice in 1917, with Thomas Ashe, leader of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, who died in the city's cruelly named Mountjoy Prison during a botched force-feeding. "It is not those who can inflict the most, but those who can suffer the most who will conquer," he declared shortly before...
...McConaughey scene - as crucial to his fans as a Miley Cyrus song or a Seth Rogen penis joke is to theirs - is the ritual removing of his shirt, to reveal a torso that could have been sculpted, or certainly caressed, by Michelangelo. The gesture is not so much an act of narcissism as a votive offering to his core constituency. A showman as much as an actor, McConaughey is ready to give the people what they want; and abs make their hearts grow fonder. (TIME Ponders: The Making of Matthew...
...outraged anti-abortion forces in a pivotal case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Souter joined with Kennedy and O'Connor in a joint opinion that upheld the "essential holding" of Roe v. Wade. Though in the same decision the three justices approved most provisions of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act, a law that put limits on abortion rights, they had ensured the survival for years to come of the basic right to choose...
Kyle A. De Beausset ’08-’11, a Crimson editorial writer, is a religion concentrator who is affiliated with Leverett House. He is a member of Harvard Act on a Dream, which will be holding a rally in front of the Science Center at noon today to ask President Drew Faust to support the DREAM Act...