Word: commiting
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...high-five. My parents, on the other hand, walked into their marriage ready to accept all those small flaws, ready to grow accustomed to one another, ready to love one another. Though often criticized, their method of meeting forced them to make the conscious decision to wholly commit themselves to each other without fleeing at the first sign of imperfection. For all the reverence that Western culture has for the romanticized notion of “love,” it somehow fails to recognize that love is something we often have to work to maintain. Growing...
...Shreya N. Vora ’06, defended the large presence of South Asian students in South Asian studies at Harvard. “Though initial attraction to the subject may be based on heritage, this attraction does not compromise the intellectual reasons why many South Asian students eventually commit themselves to the subject,” she said. While the faculty present at the meeting supported the suggestions of the students, Parimal G. Patil, assistant professor of Study of Religion and Sanskrit and Indian Studies, encouraged students to look to the future of the South Asian Studies program...
Calling those who commit acts of horrific violence “inhuman” does not do justice to their complex situation, Uzodinma Iweala ’04 said yesterday at a reading of his critically acclaimed first novel, “Beasts of No Nation,” in the Barker Center. More than 60 people turned out to hear an excerpt from the new work, which tells the story of a African child soldier. “The person who is doing the killing is still as human as you would be if you were in that situation...
...positives, he cited psychological operations—such as sending messages to the opposing troops to dissuade them from fighting—which caused many Iraqi troops to surrender at the beginning, as well as the check that embedded reporters put on the troops, who are less likely to commit moral atrocities when they know they are being documented. For failures, he reiterated Nye’s point about the loss of integrity from bribing the press. He also explained that the use of torture diminishes the U.S.’s soft power because citizens are less likely...
...story is just silly. A curse requires anyone who carries the title of the Baronet of Ruddigore to commit a crime daily on pain of death. Robin Oakapple (Benjamin T. Morris ’09), the rightful baronet is hiding, presumed dead, and thus free to shyly woo young Rose Maybud (Caitlin C. Vincent ’07) in a small town, while his younger brother bears the brunt of the curse. That is, until his adopted brother Richard Dauntless (Pedro K. Kaawaloa, Jr. ’06), a much bolder sailor who is prone to having audible conversations with...