Word: forthe
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Throughout this debate, the FDO has put forth the company line: by signing the housing contract, students agree to pay for damage done to common areas. This legalism avoids the basic question of fairness. The FDO could make the housing contract Patently unfair and everyone would still sign it. Rather than read the fine print to examine personal liability, Harvard students focus only on the big picture: sign this housing contract or immerse yourself in the Cambridge rental market. Contracts signed under such duress are of dubious legitimacy...
...nearly all of us must be aware that Israel is celebrating its 50th year as a state. Palestinians, at the same time, have made efforts to present their side of the story. Israelis and Palestinians put forth competing interpretations of the last half-century, and at times even argue over the history itself. We observers who are neither Israeli nor Palestinian are left to tease through the differing histories if we are to gather a sense of the lingering crisis at hand...
...very many suggestions that have been put forth, the one that is simple, uncomplicated and practical, is for graduating women and their families and guests to substitute "daughters in" for "sons to thy," while graduating men and their families and guests sing the song as originally written...
...sings chorales, declaims a scene from Hamlet and very persuasively fakes a suicide. He is a dutiful son and a shameless stud, a romantic egotist and sometimes a little boy lost. Few movies offer a performer the opportunity to let his talents cascade forth in the breathless rush that Two Girls and a Guy provides Robert Downey...
...more meaningful argument for a Jewish state is that put forth by Viennese journalist Theodor Herzl a century ago: the normalization of the Jewish people. Herzl's dream of a sovereign Jewish nation was realized some 50 years later in 1948, and today the state of Israel thrives as a Jewish land. In Israel, Jews are not a minority, so no one questions whether there are too many Jewish columnists on a newspaper, for example. In Israel, the Jew is Jewish regardless of his religious beliefs, so whether or not one attends a synagogue is irrelevant to his membership...