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...politcs. After Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s March 18 speech on race in America, three Cabot House resident tutors decided to organize a discussion in response. “Barack Obama’s speech really opened up a space for conversations like these to happen,” said Monique-Adelle Callahan, a Cabot resident tutor. “We had to take advantage of the momentum it produced.” While all panelists acknowledged the great importance of Obama’s speech, their reactions went beyond mere praise. One main concern?...
...hardly the first: John Paul II described faith and reason as the twin wings that lift the church. And yet a balanced takeoff has remained elusive. The U.S. is one of the few places where it seems to happen regularly. "America is simultaneously a completely modern and a profoundly religious place. In the world, it is unique in this," says a senior Vatican official. "And Ratzinger wants to understand how those two aspects can coexist." Almost all the things the Pope likes about us--our faith in the real value of plainspokenness, our pluralistic piety and even our wrangles around...
...moment, Chester French has unceremoniously survived their first SXSW. As Wallach marches off into the Texan night humming melodies, Drummey and the rest of the band ready the tour van and equipment for the long haul ahead. Before we part ways, I ask the two what would happen if “Love the Future” tanks and all of Chester French’s hype, acclaim, and access to free jeans are suddenly gone. What would this mean for Wallach’s theory that taste trumps all? Though their seemingly unassailable confidence would seem to have precluded...
...character of an academic that you’d actually want to be like so you figure, it’s worthwhile to stay at Widener late. It’s a play that rewards nerdiness. It’s a play about ideas, lots of things happen but what you take from them are new ways of thinking—some pretty deep things and some pretty silly things as well. So I’d say it’s about sex, literature, and chaos theory.Interestingly, “Arcadia” debuts on campus the same...
...Republic of Macedonia, or, more euphoniously, FYROM. Instead, Scheffer announced a classic fudge. Albania and Croatia got their invitations, but Macedonia must wait until "a mutually acceptable solution" to its dispute with Greece has been found. Scheffer suggested this would be "very soon." "It's only delayed, it will happen," said Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown after the decision was announced. Since the dispute has lasted since the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, and no resolution was found under the pressure of the summit, nobody is placing bets on when that will...