Word: fearã
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...seems that international administrators’ worst fear??the possibility that many of Harvard’s prospective international students would favor educational programs in other countries—has come to pass...
...five were vegetarians, and seven were women. Accordingly, a dish of butternut squash and potato gnocchi au gratin was served with the joking proviso, “Remember, this is not a dish for bikini weather.” The crowd tittered approvingly. Not that they had anything to fear??the portions served were so miniscule that I felt I was on a crash diet, not attending a course for which you had to stump up over...
...touching chemistry with his boyfriend Roger, played by Ryan C. Steinman; the first time they kissed, the audience let out a collective “awww.” Margaret S. Lehrman ’04 played Gordon’s mother with a mixture of hope and frenetic fear??she’s the sort of person who responds to peril by pouring herself into house-cleaning...
...thing about fear is that it makes things possible that otherwise would not be. Things you would never imagine doing—kicking puppies for example—would suddenly become possible or even inevitable in a context of fear??if, say, you feared the puppies were rabid and looked ready to bite. A more real and heartbreaking example is that of soldiers my age at roadblocks and checkpoints in Israel and Iraq alike, shooting children, women and journalists. These soldiers are not malicious; they are simply afraid for their lives. If a warning shot goes unheeded, fear...
...fear, again, is the enemy of conscience and hence of peace. Fear??s track record in making us safe is depressing, with no better evidence than current events: it was fear of Communism, after all, that let our national conscience slip enough for Reagan to arm, fund and train terrorists and dictators around the world during the 1980s—among them Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Surely, there must be an alternative to fear, a mindset that will strengthen rather than suspend basic human, and American, values rather than drive us to set more traps...