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...Sure, we often complain about the flood of all of this “unwanted” information about others’ lives onto our computer screens, but more often than not, our gripes ring hollow. The truth of the matter is, most of us don’t value our own or others’ privacy as much as we claim to. With PerezHilton.com getting millions of hits per day and the quick death of the facebook.com Mini-feed uproar, the proof is in the pudding...
...Whether you are speaking about small apartheid schools or big ones...no matter how it’s tricked out, I believe it is not only an injustice, but a moral evil and a cancer to our society,” said Kozol, who authored “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America...
...that becoming a candidate for the Undergraduate Council (UC) presidency is a difficult and painstaking process. But all it takes to get on the ballot is to find 150 people to sign their names and write down their e-mail addresses—it doesn’t even matter if the students have signed another candidate’s petition. Finding signatories is something most candidates do in an hour...
...called way too many penalties,” Reese said. “I thought it was ridiculous. [For] both teams—he was calling everything. If you touched a guy, he called a penalty. It kills the momentum of the game.” No matter how much the Crimson pressed in the final moments of the game, its attempts were not enough to squeeze out a win, as Harvard ultimately yielded, 2-1. “It’s frustrating not to get the results, but when you play a good team, and you play...
...course, he's not alone at that. It has often fallen to artists high and low to frame the choices that matter most: Harriet Beecher Stowe on slavery, Aldous Huxley on "progress," George Orwell on tyranny, Ralph Ellison on race. We could debate which debate has most refocused the Iraq war: the one moderated by Tim Russert or the one by Jon Stewart. When Crichton takes aim at genetic engineering and argues that "the future is closer than you think - get used to it," he is likely to shape opinion more than all the bioethics seminars and Senate debates combined...