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...situation. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an asymmetric confrontation between the most powerful nation in the Middle East and the weakest. Any attempt to face up to Israel using violence will only bring more severe repercussions for the Palestinians--a truth to which the death toll can attest...
...numbers attest to China's soul-searching. In 1949, despite centuries of intensive missionary work, the country had only about 4 million Christians. As faith in communism has waned, however, Chinese have increasingly explored Christianity as a way to fill a spiritual void. Unofficial estimates of Chinese Christian converts now run to 50 million, most of whom have had no contact with foreigners. Even with China's reforms, Christian practice remains tightly monitored. The Catholic Patriotic Association controls Catholic dioceses that would normally be administered by the Vatican. Many Catholic believers, however, continue to worship under bishops approved...
College days can be a time for fanciful play and practical jokes--as both The Crimson and our rival the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine--can both attest. Thus it came as no surprise when Lampoon editor Vali D. Chandrasekaran '03 attempted to break into the Crimson Jan. 2, continuing the two publications' long-standing tradition of petty thievery and mischief...
Lang says she can personally attest that the redesign has desegregated CRLS. Last year, Lang was in House A, which she says was one of the "whiter" houses with a reputation for better teachers and academics. Now, as a student in School 3, Lang says she has met a more diverse group of students...
...there is a larger issue here, of course. Harvard can be quite intimidating. As someone who came here from a small mid-western high school that rarely sends anyone out of state to college (much less to Haahvard) I can attest to that, and I think that it is a feeling we've all shared at one time or another. And yet, while most students go out of their way to downplay intellectual elitism outside of Harvard, there often seems to me a terrible tendency toward it within the undergraduate community itself. It is a kind...