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Observing the subtext of our ordinary conversations may lead to surprising and sometimes troubling revelations. Maybe we complain too much. Maybe we ask questions without really concerning ourselves with the answers. Maybe it turns out that everyone we know talks exactly the same way for some reason. But such observation also lends the possibility of expansion. Since I began to reconsider the boundaries of my own conversations, I’ve been able to talk with my friend at Boston College for a matter of hours, instead of minutes. I’ve found myself deeply engaged while talking...
...soccer field, teach the town council about Robert's Rules and all the while watch your back. They debate how much to tell their loved ones back home, who listen to each news report of victories won and lives lost with the acute attention that dread demands. They complain less about the danger than the uncertainty: they are told they're going home in two weeks, and then two months later they have not moved...
...this particular reality. And like watching reality shows, we have adjusted our vision to the new twists and turns of fact and fiction. The most astonishing aspect of the Jayson Blair scandal, after all, was that many people who had appeared in Blair's fictitious accounts didn't complain about the inaccuracies because they didn't expect any better from the press. Their skepticism was so deep it saved them from disillusion. Like Frodo, they knew what they didn't know--and didn't expect others to be any less fallible. Which, after a year like this...
...short, Harvard students and faculty need not simply complain about University President Lawrence H. Summers’ decision not to join the FAIR lawsuit. There is something important and effective that they themselves can do about the Solomon Amendment—regardless of whether or not Harvard University agrees...
...People complain about a lack of diverse campus events,” said council member Parvinder S. Thiara ’07, who will head up the event. “We’re trying to open things up to a different crowd...