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...hardest one was actually Mandarin. Japanese was easy, sort of.' AVRIL LAVIGNE, Canadian pop star, who recorded the chorus to her new single Girlfriend in English, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Mandarin...
...feel as though the real point of the protest is masturbatory. After all, a hunger strike is not just a publicity stunt, but a good way to transform a question of audits and technicalities into something worth sacrifice. Maybe the protestors are just hungry for an issue. In my English class, we watched a video of the famous 1969 Harvard protests against the Vietnam War. Several of us expressed nostalgic longing for those days. The modern age’s excessive narcissism makes you want to be there, to be part of something greater than yourself. But today?...
...enormous potential to create unity and identity among Harvard’s undergraduates; it is a shame to see that potential expended on the rather small population of students who happen to know the lyrics to Moulin Rouge.Michael J. Robin ’08 is a English and American literature and language concentrator in Winthrop House. He was co-chair of the Winthrop HoCo in 2006, co-director of the Summer School Activities Office in 2006, and is a current member of the Committee on House Life...
...typical of the branch of Pentecostal Christianity called Prosperity Gospel, which enjoys modest success here but is vastly popular in the developing world. De Jesus' literature is studded with recurrent use of the phrases "prosperidad," (prosperity), "felicidad" (happiness), and his movement's name, which means "Growing in Grace" in English. Such catchwords are reminiscent of Prosperity's assertion that God wants to showers gifts upon his followers - provided that they tithe liberally to their church. So is De Jesus' unabashed enjoyment of material trappings, which prosperity preachers attribute to God's desire that his believers be rich and that...
...spread beyond this." Thomas Tweed, Chair of the religion department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and an expert in Miami's religious history, doubts, as do several other scholars, that de Jesus' renown will extend much beyond the Latino community unless he preaches more regularly in English or finds someone to do it for him. But then again, these days a phenomenon does not need to break out of the Latino world to be a force in the U.S. "The question people ask about new religions," he says, is 'is this just a silly group...