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...doing so is necessary to achieving a stated end. The enlarged sphere or autonomy that America claims for itself in turn suggests that the United States occupies a privileged position in the international pecking order, and here we arrive at the most fundamental irritant: Unilateral policies, by reserving to oneself the right to act over the objections of one’s neighbors, presuppose one’s own moral superiority. This is the idea of American “exceptionalism;” it holds that the United States is different from other nations, that its democratic values...
...first few weeks of my first year were nerve-racking. I wondered whether it was really okay for me to see boys without taking extra care to make myself look good. I had trouble identifying flirtatious behavior. In my case, arriving at college was perhaps similar to finding oneself in a newly developing body during middle school...
...wanted nothing more than to be like him. That’s a difficult goal to set for oneself,” Alson says. “He has been incredibly supportive of me. We maintain a very close relationship...
...Palestinians had an army that could flatten Jewish settlers' homes, F-16 fighters that could pound Tel Aviv, Apache helicopters that could "surgically" remove any Israeli or Jewish leader not to their liking, would any Palestinian youth choose to become a suicide bomber? Killing oneself in defense of a cause has been tried by desperate people for centuries. Instead of concentrating on the Palestinians' suicide bombing, the Israelis would be better served by rooting out the causes of such desperation, acknowledging the Palestinians' right to freedom from occupation and giving the Palestinians back their land. NAJWA KHURI-BULOS Amman...
...accounts for another, more intriguing factor at work when students put off their work until the last minute, force themselves to churn out mini-theses overnight and complete the finished product with less than an hour to spare: confidence. It takes remarkable amounts of faith and certainty in oneself to leave a mere twenty-four hours to deconstruct Kantian metaphysics or to absorb the entire set of mechanisms for an orgo exam. For many of us at this school, myself included, the thought of waiting until the last minute to complete an assignment worth half of the final grade makes...