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...there's hope yet for the vocally challenged contestant and her voyeuristic fans. The anti-Idol website www.votefortheworst.com is urging its visitors, coincidentally the same demographic as Antonella picture seekers, to join its grassroots campaign to prolong Antonella's stay by picking up the phone...
...locked gates, no superiority complex, no unilateral decision-making. Harvard, we were told, wants to be our partner in creating an “urban-scaled village,” wants to rejuvenate our commercial center, and enhance our infrastructure. In short, we understood that the University wanted to join with us to build a community...
...Harvard helps create the urban fabric and the open space, the properly scaled campus and the cultural resources that will make Allston attractive to residents, students, and staff alike. Harvard’s sad history of community relations could turn to glory if it could bring itself to join Allston in a marriage of equals. But will it take the chance...
It’s easy to forget that each day, people make decisions and face losses whose personal impacts dwarf those that most of us behind the Ivy gates of Harvard ever encounter. At 17—the age at which Alex Arredondo made the fateful decision to join the Marines—my toughest decision was whether or not to play hookey from school. I can’t imagine signing a declaration of my willingness to die for any cause—political views on Iraq aside. At 19, as I ponder my current toughest decisions?...
...time: the suicide bomber. By choosing not only the time and place but the blood-soaked story that will accompany his death, he seeks to transcend and redeem an otherwise meaningless life. One day you are the alienated and insignificant Mohamed Atta; the next day, Sept. 11, 2001, you join the annals of infamy with all the glory that brings in the darker precincts of humanity. It is the ultimate perversion of the "good death," done for the worst of motives-self-creation through the annihilation of others. People often denounce such suicide attacks as "senseless." On the contrary, they...