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Alas, in reading over through the neatly printed sentences and paragraphs, one realizes the truth: for Neil Rudenstine’s speeches, as for Gertrude Stein’s Oakland, there is no there there. Our former president speaks in platitudes; he borrows other men’s insights to fill the spaces in his speeches where insight and originality ought to find a home. “All of us recognize that we are now actors in a drama that has become global in nature,” he tells one audience; another is informed that...
Investigators keen to gain insight into active cells aren?t terribly interested in the activities of publicists like Qatada and al-Siri, though. They want to hear details from the far less loquacious detainees, and so far they?re not hearing much of immediate value. According to a Belgian official, when police asked Nizar Trabelsi - the ex-footballer arrested on Sept. 13 for his alleged role in a planned attack on the U.S. embassy in Paris - why he had a Uzi submachine pistol in his Brussels apartment, he cited "sentimental reasons." Key prisoners like Bensakhria and the once talkative Beghal...
Katz, who was the only committee member to speak, confined his remarks to explaining the data and the committee’s role, offering little insight into the particular opinions the committee may have about Harvard’s labor policies...
...best stuff was coming from what once had been the periphery of Empire: from Africa, India, the Caribbean, New Zealand, Australia. Naipaul's work was a major part of this process, as was that of an earlier Nobelist, the Australian Patrick White. Naipaul wrote with piercing insight and even tenderness about ignored areas of experience (lower-middle-class Trinidadian life, for instance, in A House for Mr. Biswas, 1961). What was more, when he decided to leave Trinidad, separation gave him a great theme: the condition of being an expatriate, a stranger to places, a wanderer, an outsider, undeluded...
Desai and others fear negative Landshark press will result in low attendance rates at Frisbee parties. Breanne Cooley ‘04, an expert on the subject, remarks with insight, “While it is true Landsharks can be dangerous to the student body, they must be respected as any other living creature. Life, even in the form of a Landshark, is a precious thing...