Word: ideas
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...many of us, such an understanding of the holiday is entirely incompatible with the way we view the broader scheme of life. To many, the idea of a divine presence, if it exists at all, is remote, inexact and more or less metaphorical. But in a world in which G-d does not seem to still be in the business of parting seas and laying mountains low, the function of religion should be precisely to address this inaccessibility by salvaging some relevance for the divine in the day-to-day goings-on of earth. For Jews around the world...
...idea for the Course Decision Assistant came about when Digitas Technology Director Chung-Chieh "Ken" Shan '99 visited Digitas President Alexander Y. Wong '98-'99 this summer, lamenting the tedious process of searching and selecting his classes...
...direct legacy of the Gulf War, when the Bush Administration allowed Saddam to survive with his military machine intact, hoping some other force would providentially get rid of the meddlesome beast. None did. Yet if containment doesn't work very well, no one has come up with a better idea. Europeans advise a "critical dialogue" that would somehow persuade the renegade to mend his ways. Republicans laid out a five-point plan that was meant more to raise the bar on the President for decisive action than it was to offer substantial policy prescriptions...
Anders' one good idea was to paper the movie with music--not from the period, but newly written by '60s veterans (Burt Bacharach, Joni Mitchell and, oddly, Goffin himself) and a few younger ringers (Elvis Costello, Los Lobos, Sonic Youth) working in the old spirit. These fine tunes recall what was best about that era and point to what this movie should have been. Radio...
Most people in the Eliot House dining hall last night, members of an older guard, took a tolerant if not quite enthusiastic attitude toward the idea...