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...Shames ’01, a graduate student in government. “It’s good to be pro-choice, but bad to be for abortion,” But this semantic Hollywood argument disregards the importance of debate all-together, using a partisan issue to benefit a politically-correct weakling of a film industry. “Babies and pregnancy and getting together with a guy are what make a happy ending to a story,” audience member Amanda L. Shapiro ’08 says. While it’s undoubtedly important to many...
...river Houses is no surprise: anyone who has visited these oft-coveted rooms by the Charles can attest to their all-too-cozy conditions. What is shocking, however, is the way in which the College and Winthrop House went about dealing with overcrowding. Although the change in Winthrop will benefit rising sophomores (the policy makes many of the house’s cramped sophomore quads into triples), it is an unprecedented breaking of an unspoken pact that leaves the Class of 2009 feeling at worst, cheated and at best, ignored. The timing of the announcement (in the middle of midterms...
...Together, Ho and his co-founders created BeyondOrders.org. Through the site, U.S. soldiers can request supplies that they think would benefit local Iraqi communities in which they are stationed, while civilians at home in America can donate and send these materials to the soldiers stationed abroad...
...Student opinions of the liberal arts generally falls into three main categories: would-be academics see the liberal arts as a means to an end in and of itself; others believe that the liberal arts will forever sharpen their critical thinking skills, which will benefit them regardless of profession; and still others see their college years as divided between studying the liberal arts in academic settings and pursuing professionalism in extracurricular ones...
...Dalai Lama, true to his thinking, points out that the Beijing-Lhasa train is neither good nor bad. "It is a form of progress, of material development," I heard him say four months ago, adding that Tibetans understand that for their material well-being, it is of benefit to be part of the People's Republic. The only important thing, he pointed out, was how its rulers use the train and whether they deploy it for compassionate purposes...