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Young voters, who have historically felt most alienated from the political system, will perhaps be most affected by this race. The nation is undeniably at a crossroads. The Cold War has been over for a decade, but the U.S. has yet to assert itself in any definitive global role. This election, more than anything else, will determine that role for many years to come...
...Israel (HSI) and the Society of Arab Students (SAS). While these groups might pretend that they encourage open dialogue, their behavior suggests they want anything but. Rather than solicit other opinions they have polarized the issues. By holding separate vigils to mourn the dead and organizing competing rallies to assert their own opinions, these two groups have drawn a bold line between their two sides. Debate consists of yelling back and forth between the two. The average student, with murky, undecided opinions, is afraid to join...
...actions may threaten. Abu-Ayyash has Antigone's most finely drawn character in Creon, to be sure, but he does not shrink from the task, maintaining a strong, clean elocution and succeeding at keeping his long monologues from becoming flat or boring. It may be too much to assert that he brings the other actors up to the level of his own performance, but Weidman and Kitzinger in particular are much sharper in their scenes with him; Abu-Ayyash's exchanges with a bumbling but philosophical guard, excellently played by Rob Hughes '01, are also a delight. Anchored by this...
...talk, entitled "Y2Kate--Gender Virus 2000," focused on the speaker's past experiences in the transition from birth as a boy to a self-proclaimed gender change to a female identity, and later to rejection of both "labels" to assert an identity that defies pronouns...
Having proven its national prowess with six consecutive wins against teams as far away as California and North Carolina, the Harvard women's soccer team will attempt to assert local dominance when it hosts upstart Boston University tomorrow at Ohiri Field...