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...There is little room for this realization, though, amongst the believers. Furtive questions among prefrosh about the possible ambiguities of Harvard life are chalked up to sabotage or schadenfreude. It is akin to the sort of jingoism sometimes displayed by recently-minted American citizens eager to assert the superiority of their new citizenship over all others. In such a fashion, expectations inflate faster than Weimar currency; students’ assumptions will be heading into next September outrageous and out-of-touch. The fallout is obvious: a body of students for whom the most delicate disappointment of perfection constitutes universal depression...
Bowman, who is working on a graduate degree in peace studies by day, sees comedy as akin to a Gandhian exercise in passive resistance. It's a kind of intellectual sit-in - "a nonviolent act that can cause a change in public awareness." An atheist whose skepticism of organized religion was honed growing up during Ireland's Troubles, Bowman nonetheless claims his Guantánamo show is deeply Christian. It stands up "for American values, and for Christian values," he says. "Guantánamo Bay is profoundly un-Christian. I'm simply doing what Jesus did during his life: going...
...supply sides of the equation - and though the medical drawbacks are significant, they are not serious enough to become a real deterrent to expectant mothers. As surgical techniques improve and costs decrease, perhaps the reasons for preferring natural delivery will one day be intangible. It may become something akin to a rite of passage - the choice of a romantic, affluent minority. In fact, some already see it that way. When his patients choose to give birth naturally, even to the extent of refusing painkillers, "it's like they're climbing Everest without oxygen," says Dr. Paul Tseng, a gynecologist...
Pouya P. Alimagham, a first-year masters student at CMES and the president of HISO, described the celebration as akin to Mother?...
...more and more Web sites such as JuicyCampus.com, a gossip site akin to Harvard’s Gossip Geek, provide environments that facilitate unverified user-content (“C’mon. Give us the juice. Posts are totally, 100% anonymous,” reads the site), the need to be a discerning consumer of the Internet becomes more prominent. Wikipedia-wary professors warning against unaccountable, authorless sources preach this message time and time again. While the best advice to give a prospective Internet user is to take everything with a grain of salt, the reality of concrete injury...