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...individual level in that, if you believe you can control uncontrollable situations, it makes them less stressful. So the role of personal ritual is very useful in dealing with situations where you feel threatened. But I also think that the supersense could operate at the social level. What I mean by that is that if everyone in a group buys into the possibility that there are some values that are sacred in a group, then this serves as a consensus that helps the group cohere. There have to be some things which no one member of the group, no individual...
...what he believed to be institutionalized philosophy in favor of simply thinking. Indeed, Taylor’s film presents nothing like a close reading of “Being and Time,” but it does rouse its viewers to consider various takes on what it might mean to be alive today.Walking down 5th Avenue in New York City, Princeton’s Peter Singer asks, “Can we make our academic studies more relevant to our questions today?” as he applies ethical theory to the affluence around him. His idea that what...
...mean, it would have been cool if they were here, but that wasn’t the main point,” said Virginia Ng ’11, a Kirkland House resident who added that she found Haven’s memories of Ethiopian children particularly heartbreaking...
...O.M.G. I love your accent!”But for freshman tennis star and proud Aussie Holly Cao, the No. 4 singles player on the Crimson women’s tennis team, the biggest challenge came in the form of white fluff.“I mean I’ve never seen snow before I came [to Harvard],” Cao explained. “I’m from Sydney, and it’s always warm, always sunny. I came here and I see all of this snow, all of this rain, all of this, this...
...taxes, even for a relatively short period of time? The February stimulus bill contains something along these lines, the Making Work Pay tax credit, which will mail out a refundable tax credit of up to $400 in both 2009 and 2010. But an actual hiatus on payroll taxes would mean bigger paychecks in the much shorter term...