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Some students associated with Harvard Hillel told organizers that they were concerned the vigil had been organized to advocate a political stance rather than merely to mourn the dead, said Naor H. Ben-Yehoyada, an Israeli student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences who proposed the vigil...
...form a policy. Initially, when I first started, we didn’t have a policy around it, and I think we took down profiles too soon before people were done memorializing. That’s when we decided on thirty days. Thirty days seems like enough time to mourn, but is not awkward...
...want to give people an opportunity to mourn that person,” Deitch says, “but it’s not something that should stay up indefinitely on the site once they’re gone...
...When asked about Facebook.com’s policy to delete profiles of the deceased, Patterson says, “The friends of the deceased obviously want the deceased person’s profile up so they can remember them and leave comments on the profile to mourn them. I’d be pissed if my friend died and didn’t have a MySpace profile. I’d be kind...
...need a government that fosters a civil rights revolution, creates Medicare, or goes toe-to-toe with Khrushchev. We would settle for one that doesn’t abandon poor people to die in hurricanes and that prevents members of Congress from having cybersex with 15-year-olds.Some will mourn the decline of idealism among the students at the IOP. It’s true that the Earned Income Tax Credit is less romantic than the Peace Corps—which almost no IOP students will join—and quietly hunting down terrorists doesn’t have the emotional appeal...