Word: narrow
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...Beth A. Stewart '00 and her focus on student issues won a narrow victory in the Undergraduate Council elections. Last month, pragmatism again defeated progressivism, but the word on everyone's lips was "community...
Your feature on Builders and Titans was about as international as the World Series (baseball, for you non-Americans). That narrow viewpoint was surprising in a magazine that normally provides a global outlook from an American perspective. If TIME aspires to be a truly international publication, it must look beyond the shores of the U.S. GRAHAM ROBERTS Singapore...
Morality transcends narrow religious differences because morality, along with citizenship, is one of the few things that binds us all together. We can discuss a public official's private behavior and decide whether it is immoral or not, but the discussion has to take place. Morality certainly has a place in public discourse; simply to ignore private behavior and to say that it is personal, and thus beyond reproach, is destructive and undemocratic. Sujit Raman '00 is a history concentrator in Mather House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...Sinai, the Sea of Reeds (mistranslated as the Red Sea) has been located at various sites all over the Middle East. A current scholarly favorite is Lake Sirbonis (now called Sabkhet el Bardowil), a Mediterranean lagoon on the northeastern shore of the Sinai separated from the sea by a narrow land barrier. Critics claim to discern several different accounts within the Bible, depending on which of four ancient versions of the story has been woven into the existing Scripture text. A fragment attributed to the writer called E notes a fairly minor miracle, the providential bogging down of the Egyptian...
...Prince of Egypt is a grand experiment, a crusade to expand the frustratingly narrow boundaries of feature animation. The film and its laborious making are, finally, a bit like the Moses story: each is an illuminating adventure that stops just short of its own Promised Land...