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Lecturer on Psychology Tal Ben-Shahar ’96 advocated an “alternative framing” of the Arab-Israeli conflict at a Harvard Students for Israel (HSI) event last night, saying that taking a wider geographical, historical, and moral perspective on events in the region is necessary before the Israelis and Palestinians can reach peace...
...diverse as the autoharp, the Chinese jinghu, and the lute—but the arrangements are kept open and airy, with little trace of the synthesizers that buoy many of his other projects. As always, Merritt’s music has a simple, appealing exterior that belies the sharp conflict running beneath. “Shall We Sing a Duet?” features a pair of vocalists exchanging proclamations of love—but, as one of the singers reminds us, “one will never forget all the clichés and lies.” Despite...
...discriminating against same-sex couples would cause Catholic charities to lose their state licenses, the bishops announced that they would seek an exemption from the state’s anti-discrimination law that would allow them to continue arranging adoptions “in a way that does not conflict with Catholic teaching and practice.” In other words, by discriminating against gays...
D?j? vu is, of course, a French concept, and it?s happening all over again this week as students battle police outside the Sorbonne in Paris' Latin Quarter. This week?s escalating conflict doesn?t have the same breadth or resonance as the famed riots of May 1968, when French students dug up cobblestones and tossed them at the police. But the problems it presents to the government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, and what it says about France's continuing struggles to rein in its welfare state, are more than academic...
...academic from outside Harvard, Lewis wrote, “Part of a university’s responsibility may be to satisfy its students. But it is also a university’s responsibility to educate those individuals whom it is certifying as educated. Unfortunately, those goals are often in conflict...