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That same staff is responsible for overseeing work at construction projects across FAS, and must conform to a schedule determined by these large projects’ pace...
...taken this conformity for granted until the girls asked their pair of questions on Saturday night. Then it struck me that, for a college that prides itself on its diversity, we look an awful lot like one another. Is it sloth that induces us to pull on our jeans and sweaters? Or is it something more menacing—peer pressure to conform? No, the kids at my high school sporting black, safety-pin-perforated clothing hadn’t been very clean, but they always had something interesting to say about civil liberties. In high schools like mine, clothing...
...Human Heart is just a random, jumbled heap of days, most immensely amusing, some unbearably sad, but together they carry the full, devastating force of a lifetime of intermingled joy and pain. "Isn't this how life turns out, more often than not?" Mountstuart writes. "It refuses to conform to your needs--the narrative needs that you feel are essential to give rough shape to your time on this earth." Mountstuart struggles heroically to give his life this rough shape. He never quite does so. That's his failure as a person--but Boyd's triumph as an artist...
...coerce the Iraqi people into messianic idolatry of His Excellency. In recent years, despite the broad pauperization and Iraqi civilians, Saddam is increasingly compared with the Prophet Mohammed. Bengio further describes Saddam’s use of the media, artists and poets as propaganda peddlers who conform history and truth to Saddam’s whim...
...that his daughter receive an education. At 22, confronted with an arranged marriage to a distant cousin in Canada ("I was repelled by his comment that I would bear him six sons," she says), she decided to escape to the Netherlands. Right from the start she felt pressure to conform from the Somali community in the Netherlands. But she resisted. "I wanted to be part of Dutch society, to be financially independent, take off my headscarf and drink alcohol," she says. In the spring of this year she finally admitted to herself that she was no longer a Muslim...