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...Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy...
...Telangana separatist leader, was trounced both in recent state and national polls. His hunger strike - now ended - and the disturbances organized around it were likely an act of desperation of a movement shorn of much of its real political capital. "Having the government buckle to this kind moral blackmail is not a healthy way to go about things," says Madhukar. "There shouldn't be this sword of Damocles hanging over peoples' heads." A young India may have come of age through such dramatic acts of Gandhian sacrifice, but a more mature nation needs more measured habits. -With reporting by Nilanjana...
Tricarico traces the mainstreaming of the term Guido to what he frames as a "moral panic" racing through the media in relation to a 1989 racial incident in the predominantly Italian neighborhood of Bensonhurst in Brooklyn. But he pinpoints the real birth of the Guido subculture to the 1970s. If the movement has any guiding icon, it's young John Travolta and his many incarnations: Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever, Vinnie Barbarino in Welcome Back, Kotter and Danny Zuko in Grease. Today, there are message boards for self-described Guidos and Guidettes to chatter (www.njguido.com...
...football team. That fact shone like the school's Golden Dome this year when Notre Dame defied the intolerant (and rather un-Catholic) objections of pro-life activists, and invited President Obama to South Bend to promote a rational (and genuinely Catholic) discussion about abortion and other difficult moral issues. (See the top 10 sports moments...
President Faust should look into this matter and contact the relevant companies in which Harvard holds investments, asking their intentions with regard to Iran. We must ensure that at the moment of a great international moral crisis, Harvard is on the right side of history...