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Zayed M. Yasin ’02 will challenge seniors to apply the concept of the jihad to their lives after graduation during his Commencement speech June...
Yasin, who was notified of his selection soon after final auditions, will speak about “the Muslim concept of jihad as righteous struggle...
After addressing popular misconceptions of the concept, he said, he will talk about jihad “as a kind of charge for graduating Harvard students as we go off...into whatever engagement we have with the world...
Superman began life as a kind of populist statement. Created in 1938 by two Jewish colleagues, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, he offered justice for the little guy at the tail end of the Depression and upended the Nazi concept of the Ubermensch. "There was an enormous desire to see social justice, a rectifying of corruption," says DC Comics president Paul Levitz. "Superman was a fulfillment of a pent-up passion for the heroic solution." Batman, a morally ambiguous, revenge-driven crusader, emerged in 1939, at the outset of World War II, as the darker side of the heroic solution...
...with the technology they feel is best placed to combat piracy in the short term--copy-protected CDs, which have built-in encryption that is supposed to prevent you from copying the tunes more than a set number of times (usually once, which is the labels' nod to the concept of "fair use" copying in copyright law). "Our goal is a level of protection that will keep honest people honest," says Paul Vidich, an executive vice president of Warner Music (like TIME, part of AOL Time Warner...