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...touch with his fans by embracing digital technology, maintaining both an account on facebook.com and a diary on his blog, www.riverscuomo.com. He lists his AOL Instant Messager screenname on his facebook profile. While he has announced his intentions to return to Cambridge in the media, Cuomo has yet to inform Harvard of his decision, according to Susan Livingston, assistant to the Cabot House Masters. She said on Friday that she had not heard yet whether or not Cuomo would return. But Cuomo wrote on his blog: “I definitely intend to return to (Harvard) in the spring...
...values and beliefs. Many Muslims I know also strive for this, both on and off campus. This is hard in and of itself. Sometimes, a person’s preconceived notions about you cannot be corrected. But when stereotypes are actively promoted, it is almost impossible to properly inform others. In our society, people are bombarded on all sides with voices against Islam—such as the ad in the Salient—and hear few on its behalf. This makes it more likely that people will believe the stereotypes and see their Muslim friends as the exceptions...
...expert’s eye for detail, and I’m not used to making that kind of aesthetic leap. But a private tour of the Degas collection with Wolohojian himself taught me how to begin looking at Degas —and the lessons I learned could inform anyone going into the exhibit tabula rasa.In designing the exhibit, Wolohojian says that “the point was to offer a way to establish some kind of dialogue” between Degas’ varied works. The exhibit’s selection of paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures drawn...
...with unrestricted digital tracks (in much the same way that, willing or not, the major labels trust listeners who buy CDs).Endeavors like eMusic are to be looked out for and commended because they at once provide us, the consumers, with music that comes without strings attached, and also inform Apple and others like them that we understand the benefits to a fair market (lower prices, for one) and don’t want to be locked up in our music choices. However evil the intentions of the electronics industry, my parents aren’t likely to go back...
...religiously instigated violence. Any counterterrorism strategy must include a capability and willingness to negotiate with those Islamic groups with legitimate grievances and that are willing to end the violence. Radical Islamic schools need to be re-educated so that they become proponents of peace, and the media must inform the public about what terrorism really is: unjustifiable murder of the innocent. Everyone has to play a role. Only then...