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...still, his words helped shape that history, even if as an unintended consequence. Yes. I hear my mother's voice echoing in my head: "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all!" Even some of the milder things he said had terrible consequences. There is a verse in Psalms, "bend down their backs always," that he, reading Paul, applied to the Jews. He meant by this phrase that when Jews read the Bible, their posture was oriented "downward" toward this world rather than "upward" toward heaven. Much later, churchmen will misinterpret Augustine to be saying...
Seth A. Pearce ’12, a Jewish student who watched from the crowd, stayed afterwards to talk with fellow mourners. “It’s an astonishingly beautiful thing to see so many people come together and to hear so many songs,” he said. “It’s unfortunate that it takes a situation like this to bring us together, but in a way it’s all we know...
...going to have a chance to see the inauguration live, since we were studying the election so closely in class,” said Doris A. Hernandez ’09. Schoenfeld did remark however, that some students in the class seemed “upset” upon hearing the news and that there was some “grumbling.” “I know some people who have exam conflicts now,” said Ivana Djak ‘11. “I think it would have made more sense to move...
...tape. The film begins with actual black-and-white footage from the 1970s of anti-gay rioters and police brutality being used to quash gay protests. Van Sant also splices the film’s action with witness interviews about the violence. “All we could hear was screaming, crushing, smashing. It was terrifying,” one man says. This effective juxtaposition not only enhances the film’s plot, but also reminds the viewer of the story’s reality. Sean Penn fully embodies Harvey Milk. Penn’s performance is a full...
...Dashishle, the pirate aboard the Sirius Star, concurred: "They just want the Saudi Arabians who own the ship to hear that the Shabab militia wanted to release the ship, because they receive money from some rich Saudis," he said. "But the Shabab doesn't have the strength to attack us and release the ship. It's just simple propaganda...