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These reminders of America's socially unjust foundation gave me no hope that our future as African Americans would hold any great strides in the struggle for freedom from social, economic and political oppression. With these thoughts, and everyday reminders of gross inhumanity, my higher self ignites my personal flame of hope that divine intervention and positive cross-cultural exchanges will constantly promote courage among those of different cultures and color to share the abundant beauty of the likeness within their contrast...
Cinema Paradiso A little boy in a small Italian town serves as acolyte to the keeper of the flame -- the projectionist in the local theater. With graceful sentiment, director Giuseppe Tornatore evokes the magic by which our first films grasp at memory...
...surface temperature relatively stable. The feedback loops appear most valuable when they are turned off, as they were when I played in the "hard game" mode. Suddenly, rather than "playing" God, I found myself working overtime to keep my oceans from boiling away, my jungles from bursting into flame and my populations from suffering yet another mass extinction. SimEarth may turn out to be Gaia's best advertisement. If God had to adjust all these systems by hand, he'd never get a day of rest...
...mistake to present the Holden groups as any sort of organic whole. Like so many antiquarian Harvard organizations, the Glee Club is all-male. Established in the early 1800s, they still view themselves as keepers of the Crimson flame, singing the traditional Harvard Fight songs at concerts, games and alumni functions. Established half a century later, the all-female RCS "carries on the Radcliffe songs," says RCS President Melissa Haber '91. The newer Collegium, performing mostly early Renaissance music, claims the only co-ed spot in the Holden group...
Lesser fans may have faltered down the stretch. They might have given up at halftime--or even earlier. But not me. I kept the flame of hope burning for the blessed burgundy and gold. Hail! Hail! Hail to the Redskins...