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...film or TV program is enjoyed by millions, my knee-jerk reaction is to whine about it loudly and recite all the great movies it “ripped off.” Thus, I didn’t start watching the ballad of Tony Soprano until 2004. Even then, I only did it because my dad wanted to have a “let’s-watch-something-on-VHS” bonding session...
...Loker Commons, prayer services at Lowell Lecture Hall, and discussion groups. HIS president Khalid M. Yasin ’06 says the week was very successful.“Our hope is to get out information and to show that there’s no need for knee-jerk reactions,” he says. Rahman seems optimistic that American society and the Harvard community is tolerant and that dialogue will happen if Harvard students are willing to listen.“I fear for Harvard students in the sense that we take the knowledge that we get however little...
...alight by a mob of Muslims, but now ruled an accident-sparked an anti-Islamic pogrom across the western state of Gujarat in which 2,000 more Muslims died. And yet, 24 hours after the Varanasi bombings: no Hindu riots, no Hindu nationalist stoking the crowds, no knee-jerk accusations from the security services...
...there are a large number of parents who are glad that you are here to bring a degree of non-emotional common sense to the University,” one father said last year. “And there are a lot who think you’re a jerk,” interjected another. —Staff writer Nicholas M. Ciarelli can be reached at ciarelli@fas.harvard.edu...
...those of us who earn our bread at Harvard—in other words, those of us who are in a position to distinguish between the reality of this complex situation and the knee-jerk hysteria that surrounds it—it is hard to interpret the post-resignation public defenses of Summers as anything but angry, reactionary pessimism. Indeed, we should remember that “political correctness” was a concept invented by conservatives to malign progressive attempts to democratize and diversify the academy and to make higher education more hospitable to a broader range of people...