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...well.But Cheek’s greatest moments were yet to come.His actions in Turin were the beginning of a sincere and arduous advocacy, as Cheek has become a vocal spokesperson against the genocide in Darfur. Since returning from Italy, Cheek has been traveling around the country and across the globe, trying to use what fame he has achieved as a means of spreading awareness about the atrocious policies of the Khartoum government.“The three months after the Olympics was just a crush of activity, so I was literally in four or five cities a week, every week...
Toward the end of the novel, Kalfus fictionalizes real world events and departs for global Candyland. All of a sudden, the War on Terror is actually working. Iraq embraces democracy. Syria follows, sans invasion. Marshall and Joyce’s two children, along with children across the globe, wear t-shirts with Saddam’s dead silhouette that read “Death to Terrorists!” As one of Marshall’s co-workers puts it, “Bush is a Bible Belt moron who can’t put together a coherent sentence...
...true test of this story's weight is still to come. As the YDN mentions, it was a 2001 article in the Boston Globe on Harvard's grading policies that set off the debate—and attempts at reform—here, so perhaps the same could happen at Yale. (Administrators are, of course, already privy to all the statistics one would need for such a debate.) You have to imagine students will curse the YDN, though, if Yale ends up following Princeton, which two years ago capped A-range grades to 35 percent of students in each course...
With today’s general education report, this one-time training ground for Puritan ministers resurrects part of its historical emphasis on faith, at the same time as it responds to a recent rise in religious conflict across the globe...
...slothful bystander. It merely turns its head in the direction of the student-life parade, with a grin or a frown according to the occasion, but it never leads that parade. Instead, various interest groups, bloggers, a few tormented souls from The Crimson, and outsiders (parents, donors, Boston Globe reporters) are the intermediaries between students and University sages. They are doing, often inadequately and for their own ends, the job the UC should be doing. Given the inevitable shortage of important issues to debate, UC elections become an annual “Carnival of the Vanities.” Dressed...