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...continued reluctance to just be himself, instead of impersonating a grandmother, a young child, or a goofy foreigner as he has done so far, has gotten frustrating. Instead of writing about what 9/11 was like for him, in other words, which Foer feels incapable of doing, he chose the nine-year-old Oskar Schell, whose father was killed during a meeting at the Windows of the World restaurant. Foer presumes that he knows how it would feel, and although he may come close (most of us are fortunate enough not to know for sure), he winds up creating a narrative...
...panel stood in stark contrast to the protest be carried out in good taste right outside the Science Center doors. The so-called progressive student disrupters should attempt to engage in a more intellectually rigorous manner instead of staging farcical skits and rude cell-phone ringing orchestration. That students chose to rudely belittle the guest panelists was an embarrassment to intellectual freedom and political movements at Harvard. Because of the naïve actions of a group of individuals, political protests will now become further regulated by the administration...
...Republicans in almost the same breath go on to accuse him of engineering a ruinous attempt at compromise on the budget. Asked his opinion of Regan, one Republican Senator rolls his eyes and mutters, "Disaster. We go down the tubes if he takes over." Republican Senator Robert Dole carefully chose his words last week on ABC's Good Morning America when asked about the job of getting a budget compromise. "We know we can't do it without Ronald Reagan," the Majority Leader said. "We could probably do it without Don Regan...
...told that I could take leave from [Harvard], study [in Israel], and have my credit retroactively accepted,” Hasit wrote in an e-mail, “but I chose not to pursue it because I did not want to study abroad for no credit (for financial reasons...
First, they used targeted tactics. Collins and Bhatnagar were persistent in meeting with every important insider who would listen to them. Mahan and Terry chose a tactic that guaranteed that every Senior would consider their cause. Adjah and the BSA organized a protest that sent a clear and somber message...