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...Members say HIS has shifted its focus in the past five years to building stronger internal bonds. By sponsoring more social events and informal gatherings, HIS has become what many Muslim students call a “comfort zone” and a “family...
...plate of soy beans, black beans, and pinto beans, backed off, jumping ship for vegetarianism. Months later, I’m now the only one in our dining club who has the pleasure of enjoying either fowl or four-legged friend.Why the sudden switch away from the comfort of swallowed creatures? Neither had rediscovered his dog-eared copy of Charlotte’s Web this summer. Both city-born kids decided to eschew real chewing because of the environmental damage caused by the transportation and raising of animals. Sitting at the meat-free table, I’ve learned some...
...Small comfort, perhaps, to the anti-Syrian legislators in Lebanon who fear - rightly or wrongly - that history is repeating itself, with Washington once more sacrificing their interests on the altar of political expediency...
...stay behind to care for his own bed-ridden father. Rumors swirled in the camp about NATO bombs falling on Ferizaj and Serbian troops rounding up all of its men. When he finally spoke of his father, Dani turned away as he started to cry. I tried to comfort him, but we both realized the best course was to get back to visiting the tents - and the hardships - of others. When it was time to leave the camp for the final time, I told Dani to keep studying English, and I promised to write. Watching him wipe away tears...
...dialogue demands more than the criticism and finger pointing that has come to define it of late. The result has been a discourse marked by superficial overtures to cooperation masking deep-seeded intransigency.True compromise requires introspection, mutual respect, and—most frightening to those who cherish the false comfort of hope in peace without abnegation—a recognition of the need for substantial sacrifice on the parts of Israelis and Palestinians alike. These qualities ought to be second nature to America’s academic institutions; after all, open conversation and a willingness to address the most challenging...