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After the 20-minute, anecdote-laden discourse that followed, I realized that I was talking to a personification of what the author of that book was trying to explain...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PARTING SHOT: Sports Writer Learns Lessons on Writing, History, Friendship | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...layperson. I would have to give up every aspect of my life to become a “sheikha” and be covered up from head to toe in dark clothes with a long white veil before any “sheikh” would read and explain the Book of Wisdom to me. This is not an option for me or for any Druze woman today...

Author: By Rima Merhi | Title: The Druze Challenge of Survival | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...activities with unstructured time present themselves within certain constraints—rules of the game—that would not always make sense to those viewing from an outside frame of reference. Take, for instance, the incredulity outside the “Harvard bubble” at attempts to explain that going into finance is viewed here as a form of keeping one’s options open and a non-ideological choice...

Author: By Max J Kornblith | Title: The More Things Change | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

Director of International Admissions Robin M. Worth ’81 says she often finds it difficult to explain the benefits of a liberal arts education to students in developing countries where university education is designed to prepare students for particular professions...

Author: By Victoria L. Venegas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seeking a Practical Education | 5/14/2010 | See Source »

...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us begin with the question, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived...

Author: By Donald Carswell | Title: Beating the System | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

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