Word: knitting
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...many modernized Jews. Hasidic men, bearded, black-hatted and clad in severe dark suits, take to their streets to dance in spiritual celebration on joyous holy days. The strictly observant women dress to conceal their elbows and knees and cover their shorn hair with wigs. Members of tightly knit, Yiddish-speaking Hasidic communities, under the virtually absolute sway of a grand rabbi, preserve a way of life that began long ago in Eastern Europe...
...Harvard, but soon realized that we were all young adults who had a lot of learning to do. We report on very serious and sensitive issues. It is one thing to report on the world at large, when peers are reporting on other peers, but in a close-knit community like Harvard, one always walks a fine line of what is appropriate and what is not. As a result, we were constantly debating over which stories to run. When we were wrong, we issued corrections and sometimes apologized. While my initial reaction was to defend and justify the staff?...
...covered a campus tragedy e-mailed me to say, “You are not the New York Times.” The student went on: “You are not dealing with a vast population of detached observers. You are dealing with a very small, close-knit, highly sensitive population of students.” It was a criticism that is sometimes leveled internally, too: that The Crimson is overly caught up in the theoretical notion that we have a right to publish, and the campus has a right to know, for example, interesting details about students?...
...whole serves both Crimson editors and Harvard well. Any paper must consider its audience and the community it is serving. But service to the community, even one of college kids, does not mean a policy of holding off on stories because that community is small and close-knit. That sort of mindset breeds poor journalism and conditions us to be too worried about campus reaction to write major stories, even ones that could have positive impact...
Bond says that the black students at Harvard in the 1950s were a closely-knit group socially and politically...