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Mental and social barriers may be aggravated by a general reluctance to discuss economic situations in a personal context. “Harvard students talk about economic and social segregation, but only in an academic context. When I would talk to people about my financial situation, other people would become very uncomfortable in their body language, or there would be awkward silences,” says Rachel A. Culley ’07. During her time at Harvard, Culley was both a recipient of HFAI and a student coordinator for the program...
...United States and in China. “It is crucial that we step up voicing concerns with our government,” he said. Students at the event, which featured a lunch of Middle Eastern dishes, said that they enjoyed the unusual discussion of the environment within the context of international relations. “It was kind of interesting that the headline was International Relations of Ethics, and I don’t think environment is something you immediately think of under that,” said Julia Lam ’09, who is also a Crimson...
...their culture in a sense, but also an assertion of the Americans’ right to do as they pleased in a conquered country.” One can forgive certain inklings of ressentiment.“The Mikado” is certainly not alone in terms of context-specific variance. Giacomo Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” met with diverse reactions between Eastern and Western audiences—while wildly successful at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1907, it met with some confusion by Japanese audiences, who sometimes did not know what to make...
...legislation in 1990 has already affirmed our commitment to “free speech” and that voting down such an inherently reasonable motion would generate embarrassing news headlines. The clear premise was that the majority intended to vote down the motion because it had arisen in the context of what many of my colleagues and I regard as the widespread censorship of dissent about Israel-Palestine on campus and in the nearby bookstores that are an essential part of the intellectual life of the University...
...context of today’s society, the Second Amendment is outdated. Constitutional debates over its interpretation stand in the way of the implementation of pressing public policy. Instead of wasting time attempting to fix this anachronism, we should repeal this amendment and focus our efforts on legislation that will actually protect the “security of a free state”—a charge explicit in the Second Amendment...