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...it” does something bad? “It” can’t be warned, punished, or counseled. While “it” can be shut down, closing a school is a draconian solution that can’t be employed except in the most extreme of circumstances...
...Except for the few unlucky enough to have experienced it, most Harvard students are culturally unprepared to understand violence. The campus attempts to squelch aggression by intellectualizing it: there are entire departments effectively devoted to the study of people killing each other. But there is something fundamental about violence that Historical Study A-12, “Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern World,” doesn’t quite capture. Academia is inherently ill-equipped to deal with the realities of conflict, since it is based on the premise that disputes can be resolved through rational exchange...
...Yeah, except Humbert is arch, as well as being an assh---. Nabokov takes it one step further. I mean, the sexual bribes chapter, quite late on, begins with the sentence, "I am now faced with the distasteful task of recording a definite drop in Lolita's morals." That compounds the cruelty, because he's using it as the butt of his wit. So he's really complicatedly awful. It all works absolutely brilliantly. But my character's a bit more straightforward than that...
...Israel became the haven for 687,000 new immigrants with no homes elsewhere in the world, the Arabs' alarm rose to lethal levels. ''We found ourselves paying the price for something with which we had nothing to do,'' says Nusseibeh. ''We didn't know how to meet the challenge except by saying no.'' Had Egypt, Syria and the other Arab nations accepted Israel's right to exist in 1947, the Palestinians could have been living for the past 40 years in a state of their own. The Palestinians could have bargained for a homeland in 1967. But once again...
...people for a people without land,'' said the hopeful Zionist formula. But Palestine was not a ''land without people,'' and the Jewish state from its birth has lived in a state of war in order to protect the dream from the discrepancy. History, religion, politics, ethics -- everything made sense except geography. The moral and material backing for Israel has always come primarily from the West. But the state itself was built in the overwhelmingly Arab, Islamic Levant. The creation of Israel dispersed another people, the Palestinian Arabs. At the moment of its birth, Israel was fighting for its life...