Word: brotherism
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...very first experience at Harvard, back in the fall of 1991, involved standing by my parents’ ugly grey Peugeot station wagon and watching my brother move into Grays Middle 24. To six-year old Mark Adomanis, the yard was a deeply beautiful green haven, Grays the most beautiful dorm, and Harvard the most beautiful, most desirable, and best university in the whole wide world...
...women, or turn them into figures of fem-machismo. Now I see that, in the burliest genres, men's roles are being feminized. Peter Parker may be affianced to M.J., but their love seems pretty shallow and perfunctory. His most intense relationship is with Harry, his friend and surrogate brother - someone to try to talk sense to, to banter and battle with, to caress lovingly when he's hurt...
...October 2003, a glamorous, well-to-do 29-year-old lawyer named Hanadi Jaradat calmly walked into a restaurant in Haifa and blew herself up, killing 21 Israelis and wounding 48 others. In her case, revenge was the motive: Israeli soldiers had raided her home, killing her brother and fiancé, both militants, as she helplessly watched. Several Palestinian intellectuals interviewed for this article declined to publicly challenge the accepted version that women are driven to become suicide bombers out of a desire to avenge Palestinian suffering at the hands of the Israelis. But that's not the whole story...
...Brother could be watching you online. That’s what one Kennedy School associate faculty member cautioned yesterday, calling for a change in the way that internet activities are monitored and recorded. In “Useful Void: The Art of Forgetting in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing,” Associate Professor of Public Policy Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger argued for computer systems to regularly delete information, a practice he calls “data ecology.” Mayer-Schoenberger—no stranger to technology, having founded a data security company called Ikarus Software in 1986?...
...beautiful super-machinery opening a new life for innumerable mankind. Would you deny them the right to exist? Would you ask them to labor and go hungry while you yourself enjoyed old-fashioned Values? You—you yourself are a child of this mass and a brother to all the rest. Or else an ingrate, dilettante, idiot...