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...experience is akin to rehabbing a muscle you had forgotten you had. Thus in this Lenten season the Rev. Byron Shafer, pastor of Rutgers Presbyterian Church on Manhattan's Upper West Side, gave his first atonement sermon in "eight or nine years." Chicago First United Methodist's Blackwell found himself lined up with two other talking heads on MSNBC, debating the topic as if it were an election issue or celebrity trial. And back in Geneva, the issue continues to fascinate the Bible students and their church's associate rector, Tony Welty. "The question is," says Welty, "O.K., if this...
There is no more accurate barometer to determine diligence and self-discipline than in reaction to the aforementioned, dreaded Reading Room. As a general indicator of impeccable conscientiousness in library studying, you might ask yourself if you’ve ever thought of desks in Lamont as akin to real estate—the home to such prized properties as the center-of-the-room wireless-equipped desks, otherwise known as Harvard’s own Hamptons for those in the know. All the scrabble for a window seat in that place could have an outside observer convinced the framed...
...case out for years and limit the impact, even if it ultimately loses. Some antitrust experts say a settlement that imposed some restrictions might have been a better course of action. "A deal was possible but the Commission wanted a bit too much," says Jacques Bourgeois, an attorney at Akin Gump in Brussels. Yet Monti has set a powerful precedent. "It's all about ensuring that a cycle of behavior is not allowed to repeat itself," says David Wood, a Brussels-based attorney for Howrey Simon Arnold & White, who previously worked in Monti's competition directorate. Microsoft's rivals...
...It’s A Small World After All.” Such chance encounters with ghosts of section past (and for any aforementioned Jaded Seniors who long ago gave up on accruing section participation points, feel free to substitute an extracurricular, party or Annenberg meal) are akin to those other secretly thrilling yet entirely unexpected epiphanies of college life, like the delightfully gooey sugar cookies that Harvard University Dining Services occasionally bestows in an act of mercy on the hungover masses at Sunday brunch, or to use a section-related analogy, those blessed TFs (usually found in the English...
...meeting with Putin three years ago, claimed to have looked into the eyes of his Russian counterpart and "gotten a sense of his soul," deciding that Putin was a man he could trust. But for many other Western commentators from all ends of the ideological spectrum, Putin is more akin to a risen ghost from Russia's nasty past. His government's relentless campaign to squelch political opposition and silence independent media; its hounding of the "oligarch" business tycoons whose control over vast swathes of the economy create a potential alternative power center; and the clumsy brutality of his campaign...