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...Schapiro’s experience is the type that social service volunteers strive for, the story that gets touted at information sessions for those eager to make a difference beyond Harvard’s ivy-covered gates. And with Harvard’s many options, students can easily find a service opportunity that’s right for them among the many colored posters that populate extracurricular fairs and Phillip Brooks House Association (PBHA) open houses...
...contest between the idealist and the survival artist seems to me the heart of this movie. The former is willing, even eager, to sacrifice all of his fellow prisoners (or should we call them his colleagues?) for his principles. The latter insists that a man's first duty is to live, which is the natural precondition for-perhaps-doing something useful later, should the opportunity arise. I'm with Salomon. When you're dead, you're dead. Which is to say inutile, incapable of principled gestures, which may or may not make the world a better place, however pleasing they...
Change is progress, some would argue, but sometimes the essentials don’t need to be fixed. John Darnielle’s “Heretic Pride” is his fifteenth full album under the name of the Mountain Goats, and it finds the singer-songwriter eager to explore the same ups and downs of domestic living in a way that artfully captures truth. If you closely study the structural skeletons of Darnielle’s songs, you can hear the echoes of a decade’s worth of Mountain Goats tracks. But instead of the intimate...
Indeed, there were many moments where the rivals seemed more eager to prove how similar they were on policy. Asked how she would differ from Obama on the economy, an issue which has become the top priority for voters, Clinton began: "I would agree with a lot that Senator Obama just said, because it is the Democratic agenda." And what about that border fence, for which they both voted? "Well, this is an area where Senator Clinton and I almost entirely agree," Obama said, as he echoed Clinton's argument for more sensitivity to the opinions of local communities...
...measure, then, of just how eager the Turkish military is to confront the PKK that it got a jump on the spring thaw by sending a reported 10,000 Turkish troops into northern Iraq Thursday, despite the weather. Turkey's goal appears to be to pre-empt the spring build-up of PKK fighters moving from Iraq into Turkey. The Turks have advanced some six miles into Iraq and blown up a few bridges, and say they will return home to their warm bases as soon as possible...