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...having had a course that focuses in a mature way on how to make decisions in cases of moral dilemmas.”GRAB YOUR PARACHUTE“Is there space and air in your mind,” William James suggested, “or must your companions gasp for air whenever they talk with you?” What is missing in the debate about Moral Reasoning is James’ very point. Moral Reasoning was never intended to be a course like any other course, filled with coursepacks and quizzes. It was supposed to facilitate personal exploration...

Author: By Kimberly E. Gittleson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Moral No More, Maybe | 3/22/2006 | See Source »

...face of such divisiveness. But the College is particularly well poised to enable its students to overcome it. While we at Harvard may think that oceans of difference separate us from our peers, to the outside world, we are all just Harvard students. Whether we scored a 1600 or (gasp!) a 1350 on our SATs, all of us are subject to the same skeptical glances and the same odd combination of reverence and resentment from the strangers we meet outside the confines of the Yard. As different as we may seem to each other, in the eyes of many...

Author: By Paul R. Katz, | Title: An Even Bigger Disappointment | 2/27/2006 | See Source »

...right” answer to every question or that I will be able to solve every situation that comes through my inbox. I think I have gotten far enough away from my perfectionist tendencies that got me into Harvard to admit—with humility (gasp!)—that my advice will not be perfect...

Author: By Molly E. Mehaffey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dear Molly: An Introduction to the New | 2/27/2006 | See Source »

Harvard Campus Rabbi Avi E. Poupko leaped on stage after the band’s exit and waved his arms before diving into the audience, only for the crowd to part like the Red Sea below him. A collective gasp in the audience was rejoined by sporadic snickering as Poupko was forcibly removed by a number of hefty bouncers...

Author: By Adam J. Scheuer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Matisyahu | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...chain after chain of historic, family-owned retailers--Gimbels, Woodward & Lothrop, Wanamaker's, Montgomery Ward--closed their doors or were swallowed up by stronger companies. In 1980, about 35 major department-store chains were in business; today there are only 13. The merger is the category's last-gasp effort to save itself. "It represents the best chance to stop the decline of the department-store channel," says Liz Claiborne CEO Paul Charron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Department-Store Superstar | 2/6/2006 | See Source »

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