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...lingering horror of the Holocaust. Mendel, born after the war ended and temporarily shielded from knowledge of the Holocaust by his parents, confronts a world where much remains incomprehensible and the past is a blank. His main concern becomes his struggle to decipher the story he has only half-heard in whispers his whole life...
...know them well; we've heard Chris Berman enumerate countless times why the Jets, despite their perpetually abysmal record, are still "mathematically in the hunt." We begin to care, outside the office pool, who wins that Falcons-Saints tilt at the Superdome. And we can recite with the precision of an actuary precisely what it will take for any team to clinch a wild card berth...
What I encountered in the first essay, "The Pursuit of the Ideal," was a magical world of thought that seemed to me wonderful but overly complex. After all, I had not even heard of Kant, much less been able to name-drop The Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals in section. Yet despite all the references to Herder, Plato, Machiavelli and Voltaire, I detected some resonance in this history of ideas. What "a priori" meant I did not know, but the basic themes I understood. Berlin was saying that theories were wonderful stuff, great to think about and even more...
Most importantly, students both on and off the council should take up the responsibility of making student voice well organized and well heard on campus. Council members should be well informed and attend meetings in order to represent their constituents' concerns. Students: make the effort to find out who your representatives are and communicate with them so that the council can be your voice as well...
...they need to know about other cultures unless they are told. I probably won't go to an event that is pitched merely as a celebration of a particular culture. I'm really happy with the cultures I know about. But I will attend Ghungroo this year because I heard it was a great show, not in order to celebrate South Asian heritage. We all came here to be educated, and ethnic organizations have a tough role to play if they position themselves as being a necessary education in addition to classes...