Word: fatalism
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...course, some of you have realized that this parting shot itself presents a lesson of sorts: that there are few lessons to be taken from Harvard in any broad sense. Some of the more intellectually-playful types among you will undoubtedly see a contradiction in this, and announce the fatal flaw in this article with a typical “I’m-the-smart-guy-in-section” flourish...
...early days of Taliban rule and based on a true story, it tells of an 11-year-old girl whose mother sends her out with a short haircut and long robes to find work as a "boy" and support the family. It's a reckless ruse, one with potentially fatal consequences. The girl is taken to the men-only prayer ritual, and attends instruction by a mullah in the proper washing of the male genitals. Everyone notices that this "boy" is different?"like a nymph," the mullah says. Her deceit is uncovered by her first menstrual period...
...body: it might cause SARS. They've also extracted the virus from a species of wild dog and found antibodies?evidence of an earlier infection?in a Chinese badger. Those results probably confirm the long-dreaded notion that overly close cohabitation of man and animal is brewing up new, fatal plagues. Hong Kong's bird flu of 1997 was just such a creation: a virus harmless in waterfowl that jumped species to infect chickens and then mutated again, killing six people before authorities got it under control by wiping out 1.4 million chickens...
...event. The Day of Silence takes its cue from ACT UP’s die-ins—which themselves were meant to illustrate the group’s brutal slogan, Silence=Death. When the Day of Silence came to college campuses in 1996, it sought to literalize the fatal silence surrounding the victims of hate crimes. In another decontextualization of a once-potent political action, the BGLTSA’s event re-defined silence as the silence of the closet. Needless to say, the silence of the closet is not the silence of the grave...
...Cornell’s versatility on the attack proved fatal...