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Like everything else about her, Farid’s philosophy is simple, but incredibly effective: “I try to be as generous with my time as I can be, and I really believe that we all share a common humanity. If you help even one person in whatever capacity you can, it makes a big difference in that person’s life...
...response to the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast, Harvard clearly demonstrated its support of the victims through monetary contributions and initiative to accept dozens of students whose schools were forced to cancel the fall semester. As if this gesture by the College was not generous enough, the Undergraduate Council has “officially” supported the proposal that visiting freshman students be allowed to apply to transfer to Harvard permanently if they wish. Visiting students who wish to transfer to Harvard permanently and those who support that proposal should realize that it is unfair...
...known to have sex without making a baby. But we were, as the Vatican assured us in official documents in 1975 and '86, "made in the image and likeness of God." The condition of homosexuality was, for many, "innate" and not in itself a sin. Gay people were "often generous and giving of themselves," said the Vatican, and the notion that gays could not lead celibate lives was an "unfounded and demeaning assumption." The bar on any gay sexual intimacy was still firm--but it was the same bar that prohibited heterosexual couples from using contraception, or single people from...
...Dunster House Opera to the recent production of “Slavs!” at the Loeb Theater.Simply performing Gilbert and Sullivan’s libretto was not enough for the HRG&S Players—they also aim at spicing up the production with a generous dash of their own Harvardian creativity.“We can’t do things[in] the way that was originally how the playwrights intended them—they’re dead,” Krause says. “In a new cultural setting, and taking into account...
...Anglo-Saxons, who have a penchant for politeness and political correctness, the French have no inhibitions about crudely stating their reaction to events. The country needs to get rid of its outmoded approach to race, immigration and integration. Gautham Venkata-Chalam Ottawa It is an illusion to believe the generous social-welfare benefits France offers its citizens - including millions of immigrants mostly from Arab countries - will bring social peace. How can the government, the left-wing media and élite French society turn a blind eye to the hatred brewing in immigrant housing projects? The greatest damage inflicted...