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Relations with the Palestinians are another fault line. Some 56% of secular Israelis support the peace process, compared with only 9% of the haredim and 24% of the so-called modern Orthodox. One group of rabbis went so far as to instruct army soldiers to disobey any order to withdraw from parts of the West Bank, an invitation to insurrection. A survey last fall showed that 27% of religious teenagers condone the murder of Rabin...
There are some within the University who found fault with the previous system. Many observers suggested that students spent too much time during the spring of their first year selecting a house. Others argued that granting students a choice promoted self-segregation and hindered interaction between identifiable groups of students. Their solution to these concerns was randomization...
...just Harvard's lack of institutional imagination that is at fault for the problems of undergraduate education; students, too, must bear their share of the blame. We students have adopted shamefully passive attitudes toward learning. We come to the College not as scholars but as consumers, judging professors on the quality of the services they provide instead of using their knowledge as a point of departure for self-motivated learning. We consider knowledge to be illegitimate unless it provides the answer to a test question, wins a grant or looks good on a transcript. And faced with the weaknesses...
White skin in this country is still the most precious of social heirlooms, one which is, by most, unquestionably accepted. But when it comes to the darker side of their inheritance, rhetoric changes to "not me," "not my fault," "not my problem...
...loose service game and wasbroken in the first game of the second set.Passarella effectively closed the door in the nextgame with a tough, hard-fought hold of service togo up 2-0. After this his opponent unraveledmentally, and lost the match (7-6,6-3) on anignominious double fault...