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Ideas—good, bad, and mediocre—are often just floating in the zeitgeist. They are put to good, bad, and middling use. Sometimes the same element will be played over and over, with varying degrees of ingenuity. (Think of the uses to which John Harvard’s statue in Harvard Yard has been put over generations...
...divorced from reality, that indeed, religions tend to be the product of an ethno-cultural background. But while ethnicity or race often determine extrinsic behavior and values, they are by themselves entirely intrinsic. One is born Indian or black and cannot change this identity. Yet there is always an element of choice, regardless of whether it is exercised, when choosing a religion; we are not chained to ideas at birth. The quintessential example is Salman Rushdie, who was born into an Islamic family but has since become one of the world’s most vociferous critics of the Islamic...
...also something we don’t discuss enough as reporters with our readers and the people we cover. On a certain level, our jobs are very easy: we get to sit around and watch sports while eating the free press-box food. But there’s an element of difficulty in that many of us never played the sports we cover, or at least not past a Pop Warner level. The vast majority of us are fans-turned-reporters, where we throw on veils of objectivity and try to explain what happened instead of blindly cheering.All this puts...
...Dragon Fire” is a cautionary tale for budding politicians and aspiring novelists alike. Former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen has somehow managed to write a political thriller that purges both politics and thrillers of nearly every redeeming element...
...Lowy ’09, a great asset to the orchestra’s wind section. The slow third movement was highlighted by the healthy sound created by the first violins, in partnership with the principal flute Jonathan G. Sherman ’07. Demirjian seemed in his element as he guided the orchestra to an graceful and unified closing of the movement—something that is beyond the reach of many student orchestras. The final Allegro was undoubtedly the favorite of the brass section, who nevertheless resisted the urge to overblow the exciting theme. The strings and winds...