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...feel a little guilty for not supporting "We join in thy jubilee throng," but it's such a little thing that doesn't accomplish anything. It only reminds us of how powerful our discomfort about our history is, and how desperately we keep trying to fix what is still not perfect about Harvard. I am probably one of about five people who care about the lyrics to a song that about 5 percent of the Harvard undergraduate population knows. In several years the old lyrics will have faded from memory and nobody's life will be any different because...
...Crane is chief executive of the family's $150 million-a-year plastics company in Columbus, Ohio, and gives more than $50,000 a year to her favorite charities, like a local children's advocacy group. "I earned the money," she says. "I've never had any discomfort writing a check...
...force excluding NATO member countries. The alliance will try to bridge that gulf by piling on the pressure. "NATO is escalating its air offensive because Belgrade had grown accustomed to the previous level of bombing," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Escalation is designed to increase the level of discomfort in Yugoslavia." With the air campaign as the alliance's only leverage, the prelude to negotiations is likely to see NATO ratchet up rather than ease off on the bombing...
Most teenagers exist in a state of near constant mortification at the prospect of supervision by their parents. But surely a parent can risk his child's embarrassment, and his own discomfort, to get in his or her face a little bit. Surely we can manage to love them a little louder. To find the time to read their school papers, listen to their music, watch what they watch and get to know their friends. I have a memory of my mother, bless her, sitting at our dining-room table and reading the liner notes to Thick as a Brick...
...They're just very questioned. This guy is good. It brings the reader closer to him. He will sacrifice anything." O'Nan recognized the abruptness of his style but felt the overall intensity and involvement was worth confusing his reader for the first 30 pages. The reader's discomfort and anxiety concerning the epidemic are profoundly enhanced by the voice, by his lack of freedom of thought. His thoughts are Jake's, so just as Jake is helpless against the disease and unable to rescue his loved ones, so too is the reader unable to help Jake and, instead, grows...