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...Bombay Dreams humming Rahman's songs and singing his praises. If music is the crucial part of a musical, then Rahman's genius will ensure that Bollywood conquers Broadway." Again I hoped that a show might be successful, and its songs click with listeners, broaden our currently cramped musical lexicon...
...country. If students from socially conservative areas absorb the type of rhetoric they hear at Harvard and take it home, they will confirm the notion that Ivy Leaguers are a bunch of leftists who will not deign to even consider opposing positions as anything but ignorant. This lexicon of alienation can take many forms. For one thing, the academy simply doesn’t speak the same language as most Americans, for whom “gender” glosses as “biological sex” and “queer” isn?...
...first, I doubted my sufficient knowledge of this word in the English lexicon. Perhaps pregnancy also carries with it a lesser-known meaning of “the act of giving birth.” Seeking some sort of resolution to my confusion, I contacted the source: the Harvard Classics Department...
...need for a draft as a solution only to immediate problems? What about the more important question of whether the U.S. should require government service of all our youth? Since the end of the draft in 1973, the word duty has been almost totally erased from the American lexicon. That is a real issue. Bringing back the draft might mean we would also face the inequities rampant during the Vietnam conflict, such as deferments of the privileged and politically connected. That type of draft system is a bad idea. We need a whole new mandatory national-service program...
...which remains the single largest party in Palestinian politics. It derives from the fact that Arafat's ascent in the national movement epitomized a Palestinian declaration of independence. Before Arafat and his comrades took charge of the PLO in 1968, the very term "Palestinian" hardly existed in the international lexicon. The fate of the Arab residents of what had once been British-mandate Palestine was viewed by the West, Israel and the Arab world as properly the responsibility of the Arab regimes. But with their failed military campaigns to destroy the Jewish State in 1948, 1967 and 1973 leaving...