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...finally tracked down Donald Kraybill, a professor in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. Kraybill, to my chagrin, told me there is in fact a lot of stuff going on with the Amish. Far more, I had to admit, than is going on with me. Amish churches, he said, will spend the next year wrestling over whether to allow members to own cell phones. This seemed odd to me, since Amish beliefs forbid members to drive a car, go to school past eighth grade or have phones in their homes. But someone found a loophole...
When it comes to issues such as war, genocide or religious conflict, few parties want to admit wrongdoing, and few are in agreement. That makes writing history textbooks free of biases, and fair to all sides of the showdown, a daunting task. But in the U.S. as well as around the world, some authors are attempting to take it on. Here are some examples of their efforts...
...they provide Harvard students “with a great show at a great rate.” Whether or not you care to go see “whoever most people will get psyched for,” as Siegfried described the quintessential HCC act, even skeptics must admit that Bob Dylan tickets were only $25, not $50 as they would have been elsewhere. The Commission’s heart may be in the right place, but according to Riesman what Harvard really lacks is “a place to see bands like Wolf Parade...
...difficulty of expressing in quantifiable terms as mutable an idea as “economic diversity.” While I admire and support Harvard’s current push to encourage more lower-income students to apply—and certainly hope that the university sees fit to admit fewer of the super-rich—a little recognition from the administration for families such as those I have described would be appreciated. No one needs to be reminded that there are students here whose personal allowances could easily cover their tuition, but my parents and the parents...
...admit, after recovering from my belief that my Harvard-addled mind had finally cracked, I was impressed. To paraphrase Ron Burgundy, “You created a talking ad with light up-headlights? How’d you do that? Actually I’m not even mad. That’s amazing.” But the inherent creepiness was a little too “Minority Report” for me. First, the ad is talking to me, then it is stalking me, then the robots take over the world...