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When I was in Cairo this summer, the Arab Street was busy. The bazaars bustled with shoppers and the bikers and pedestrians gave ground to trucks and scooters amidst the harum-scarum commerce practiced in stalls up and down the Old Islamic Quarter. On Friday hundreds of men and women streamed out of Al-Hussein Mosque, and while I sat and watched, drinking apple tea, a watermelon cart owner did a brisk business selling his wares to the parched masses...
...often said that Harvard students are insane, and there is no doubt that the College is not the most nurturing place when it comes to mental health. Amidst the myriad pressures of life here, it is easy to lose one’s way. But as a population, I think that we are predisposed to instability—the same compulsive behaviors that allow us to excel in the classroom by blocking out distractions can be easily misdirected toward other areas of life. Getting into Harvard is a mentally scarring process. Some of us are just better at hiding...
...Amidst all the confusion, the tabloids swept in for the kill. Pictures of Timberlake dancing and lunching with another girl were splashed across their front pages. Somewhere in the carrion of what was once true love, diggers have unearthed the most plausible reason for a Spears-Timberlake separation: busy schedules make it too difficult to be with each other...
...amidst all this green, Harvard has lost the ability to discriminate which student groups and events merit funding and which personal interests groups can be cultivated without formal grants...
That is why, despite all the pomp and gloss, rock star displays and true-to-the-album reenactment, The Calling, is still credible as a rock band. Frontman Band’s melodrama only intensifies the band’s presence. The defeated to-the-knee collapses amidst power ballads and Top 40 hit “Wherever You Will Go” conveyed an unearthly burden, as if The Calling were sent from heaven to deliver redemption. The beyond-cool ’60s swagger and spasms during the fervidly-charged “Nothing’s Changed?...