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...uprising that has killed almost 500 Palestinians and more than 100 Israelis and ruined thousands of lives and livelihoods, as a means of improving his bargaining position. He has spent much of the uprising shuttling around foreign capitals trying to win support for renewed negotiations, hoping the uprising would function strengthen his hand at the table...
...experience of living in a college town, with late-night establishments like the Tasty that not only provide cheap food but also serve a social function, seems to be vanishing rapidly. Over the course of this year, Harvard students have lost out to the concerns of tourists, the expansion of nationwide chains and skyrocketing rent prices...
...find much comfort in thinking of the Jewish calendar this way, and I think the college calendar is similar. We come here, spend four years rethinking everything we’ve ever believed, and are then dumped back into the world expected to function, even function well. If I continued in my overly analytical way to question all my assumptions, considering the theories I’ve learned, the contradictions between these ideas and the injustices in the world, I would be a useless employee and unproductive member of society. So while we should continue learning and thinking critically...
...Religion is interactive by nature. A message is conveyed to a believer, revealed, perhaps, by a Supreme Being, or manifest in one's surroundings, where spirits inhabit the trees, the rocks, the winds. The believer's life, fundamentally, becomes the response. This jibes rather nicely with the form and function of the Internet. I can, in essence, create my own sacred space. I have access to the precepts, texts, rituals and rules of a religion - for observance or investigation - without depending on an authority in a specific place to site, judge or restrict...
...editorial opinion serves a function where it critically analyzes news or current events in search of some insight or understanding. In blithely accepting and adopting anonymous accusations against Ellen Phelan, former chair of the Visual and Environmental Studies department (VES), the Crimson staff failed in this task (Editorial, “Changing Function, Not Face...