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...that is why Senior Gift Plus is so important. It is not revolutionary by any means, but it does allow seniors and their supporters to stand up and make a collective statement, not only about Harvard’s immoral investments and the blatant disregard for community dissent, but also on the very humanity of the people of Darfur. Harvard’s investment, and subsequent doubling of that investment, belies a pervasive sense that the lives of people in Darfur are meaningless. For that reason alone, Senior Gift Plus is a powerful vehicle for forcing a truly necessary conversation...
WHAT'S SCARY IS THE EVANGELICALS' blatant attack on the separation of church and state, a concept that has long protected all U.S. citizens. The battle between the forces of enlightenment and those of religious fundamentalism will determine whether we slide back into the shadowed past when religion and the state were one. Our children are depending on us to preserve their civil liberties and prevent them from having to grow up under a Christian version of the Taliban...
This year I was rooting for Kanye West. I liked College Dropout, loved the cover art, hated the skits, and was lukewarm towards the oh-so-blatant righteousness of his recusatio in “Jesus Walks” (“They said we could rap about anything but Jesus / That means guns, lies, sex, videotape / But if I talk about God my record won’t get played, huh?”) though intrigued by the song’s popularity—if anything, this rapper was different. West’s name was all over...
...Girls, Girls, Girls” have long since traded bondage for bond trading. New generation would-be rockers have become jaded by an omnipresent sexuality in pop music even Wal-Mart sanctioned acts like Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera get “dirrty” and blatant promiscuity and commercialism in the most bootylicious of rap: in an age of 50 Cent’s “Tip Drill,” and Mobb Deep’s “Hit It From the Back,” the “Wild Side?...
This year I was rooting for Kanye West. I liked College Dropout, loved the cover art, hated the skits, and was lukewarm towards the oh-so-blatant righteousness of his recusatio in “Jesus Walks” (“They said we could rap about anything but Jesus / That means guns, lies, sex, videotape / But if I talk about God my record won’t get played, huh?”) though intrigued by the song’s popularity—if anything, this rapper was different. West’s name was all over...