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...enough to block out all the dancing girls, jumping boys, fireworks, laser lights, eardrum-pounding music and halftime motocrosses that are part of the show in Orlando. The Dream vs. Shaq is the present vs. the future, bop vs. rap, ballet vs. the World Wrestling Federation, humility vs. bravado, Mecca vs. Madison Avenue. It is also a game, as O'Neal...
...past, graduates of this school considered two options after their graduation: to preach or to profess. Today, the most coveted job in Harvard's spring recruiting is at Walt Disney Company, or second best, the NBA. For us, piety emanates not from Jerusalem, the Vatican, Mecca, Kyoto or Banares. It's Los Angeles. The celebration of banality found in Los Angeles carries over to Harvard. We throw ourselves into the gorge...
...administration seems to favor randomization, but this misguided remedy would destroy the mecca and haven that Black students have established. Under randomization, Black students would lose the option of joining a substantial group of students who often share common bonds, interests and experiences. Instead, they would be arbitrarily split into numerous smaller groups for no good reason...
...travel to or from Libya, and today he did, sort of. The sanctions were imposed in1992 to force Libya to turn over two suspects in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland. Today a planeload of 150 Muslim pilgrims left Tripoli for a pilgrimage to Mecca -- only to turn right around and land again. Then U.N. officials decided to make an exception for religious flights, saying, "Libyan pilgrims should not be denied the right to pilgrimage and should not suffer for the actions of their government...
Seniors weren't the only ones who watched their wallets. Most students stranded here for vacation adhered to strict financial budgets. Star Market served as a temporary Mecca for the thrifty and starving. "A friend and I trekked out to the Star Market in Porter Square where I stocked up on the essentials--Honey Smacks and ramen noodles (no, not together) and plenty of Diet Coke," relates Cynthia L. Alvarez...