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...blow to our egos when we see that Bill Clinton is speaking at Ball State, Bill Gates at Brandeis, Bill Cosby at Berkeley. We read the accounts of these speeches in The New York Times or see clips on CNN and ask, why not at Harvard? Given the extent to which we have been trained to expect only the best from Harvard--the most important professors, the biggest library system, the most famous name--it is all too easy to expect the best in terms of Commencement speakers...
...following pages we've tried to highlight the roots of those clashes, and to introduce people from around the world who are fighting, with careful passion, for their beliefs. They immediately present a host of nuanced, difficult questions. To what extent should we trade off our environment for our economy? How should the advancement of a secular global mentality make room for God? As the world becomes increasingly integrated by technology and communications, these questions will become more relevant. Economic shifts in Kuala Lumpur can, we have seen, trigger shocks in Phoenix. The destruction of Brazil's rain forests...
...cost him his life. Even today, a uniformed armed guard escorts him everywhere. Bizimana has tried to come to terms with the cataclysm, but there are no easy answers. "We have to ask ourselves, What provoked people to start thinking of themselves as threatened by their neighbors to the extent of trying to annihilate them...
...coincidence that Puffy's ascendance into the echelons of the business world could only come in the areas of music and, to a lesser extent, sports and cinema. These are the spheres blacks have always been limited to in their quest to "make...
...exception that proves the rule. In what I considered a particularly crafty tactic, I set my watch not to five minutes ahead--so easy to correct for the "real time"--but to the far more ambiguous seven minutes ahead. In this way, I succeeded in fooling myself to the extent that I even began showing up early. Yet there were limitations on the system. Because I rely on my clock rather than my watch while in my room, I found that I was still consistently late to morning activities. There was only one solution: set-ting my clock ahead. Since...