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...draws 1,700 students annually to serve over 12,000 community members. Harvard does better than the rest of America: Of the 93 million volunteers nationwide, most do what pastor Eugene F. Rivers III scorns as "recreational community service"--baking cookies for girl scouts or baby-sitting for a neighbor. Only eight percent work in "human services" --in soup kitchens, shelters, camps and inner-city schools. Virtually all Harvard students fall into this latter category of real community service. Harvard students certainly care for and about the poor...
...Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamozov, Ivan tells his brother that he loves his neighbor, but only from a distance. "For anyone to love a man, he must be hidden, for as soon as he shows his face, love is gone... Beggars should never show themselves, but ask for charity through the newspapers... Children can be loved even at close quarters, even when they are dirty, even when they are ugly...
Critics have carped about the play's sometimes pretentious language ("Nobody dast blame this man..."). But at its best Miller's dialogue was unmatched for its plainspoken eloquence and economy. Willy, the blusterer with big dreams for his sons, meets Bernard, the nerdy next-door neighbor, now grown up and about to argue a case before the Supreme Court--but possessing too much compassion for Willy to brag about it. Miller captured the essence of Willy's self-delusion and failure in a brief exchange charged with emotion, wit and character insight. Call that poetry...
...inhibiting my global growth. Pilate chortled again and made several more rude comments concerning my personal appearance. After consulting with a rival consultant from the same company, I decided to terminate the client-consultant relationship. Pilate, glad to wash his hands of it, went downstairs to consult my neighbor on Mesopotamian divorce contracts...
Incumbents usually start to organize their campaign in the winter. Though some take out their campaign organization papers in the winter, no one has done that so far, according to Executive Director of the Election Commission Teresa S. Neighbor...