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Like all political battles, there is a large group with shared opinions and goals (insofar as the goals are political and not military), and then there is its extreme, dedicated to achieving those goals (and other, more brutal ones) at all costs. Sinn Fein has the Irish Republican Army, the Palestinian Authority has Hamas, the Basque nationalists have Euskadi Ta Askatasuna...
...make what Bob Marley once called "rebel music" today is not that there's too little rebellion out there but, by Western pop culture's liberal definition, that there's way too much. Since the dawn of rock 'n' roll, popular music has been de facto rebellious, at least insofar as the term is defined by record labels and soft-drink ads. All it takes to be a rebel in America, it seems, is to be young and loud. In a music culture where a rebel is the Backstreet Boy with a goatee or the rapper with a lifestyle like...
...brother, made two gifts to the University in 1993 and 1994 to fund fellowships for advanced study in Islamic culture. One such fellowship, at the Harvard Law School, provides funds for “research on the history of legal institutions in Islamic states past and present, particularly insofar as they uphold or apply the Islamic shari’a.” Another, at the Harvard Design School, provides money for “advanced studies in Islamic architecture...and appropriate building technologies as they pertain to Islamic built environments...
Ultimately, though, Summers must do more than talk and listen; he must act. Dialogue itself is a worthwhile exercise, but it succeeds in fostering a community of peace, free interchange and mutual respect only insofar as it proves effective as a means initiating tangible change. This is not to suggest that the new administration must acquiesce to every student demand and recommended reform brought to the table, but it is to suggest that the administration must treat every student demand and recommended reform with seriousness and actually take steps to act on those issues where student and administrative interests...
...political statements through "Peanuts." He remained apart from specific social and political causes, never joining the battle of ideas. Having established an idiom and a mode that commented on modern ills such as commercialization, real estate development, generational distrust, Schulz extended the area of doubt in modern life only insofar as he made it funny to doubt. But, as the '60s intensified, as the Vietnam War failed and nothing quite worked out, as the triumphal quality of American life modulated, "Peanuts" became a refuge. Schulz became the patron saint of people who were putting up with all they could take...