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...We’re 100 percent behind whatever the guards decide to do,” according to Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09, a member the campaign. Given Harvard’s largely apathetic, resume-driven environment, such earnest passion is refreshing. Undoubtedly, the strikers endured substantial physical and psychological stress, and it would be crass to belittle their suffering. But zealotry is not, in and of itself, admirable, nor does martyrdom make a cause more justified; however passionate, the strikers’ actions reflect a blinkered ideological perspective and a myopic, distorted sense...
...come home from a screening, weary and faboobled, pop a Mozart recording in the machine - you really must get Murray Perahia's boxed set of all the piano concertos and enter into bliss. I don't know a thing about music and don't understand my Mozartian passion, but the other night I decided to see as well as hear his sublimities, and so decided to play the DVD of a film called In Search of Mozart, which someone had sent me and which goes into very limited theatrical release Friday...
Clayton says his upbringing was instrumental in shaping his personal religious views and conflicts. He explains that he was raised by a father who was “as anti-religious as you can imagine” and a mother who “hated religion with a passion,” making him “the most natural atheist in the world...
...however, in referring to environmental challenges and saying "It's time we asked Americans to be patriotic about something other than war." Former Nevada Senator Alan Bible said, "We labor long and earnestly for peace because war threatens the survival of man. It is time we labored with equal passion to defend our environment." Mary Wear, Arlington, Texas...
...reconnecting with his core beliefs. He assembled the earliest slide show in 1989, while writing Earth in the Balance-carrying an easel to a dinner party at David Brinkley's house, standing on a chair to show CO2 emissions heading off the charts. She wanted him to find that passion again. They were living in Virginia, and the Kodak slides were gathering dust in the basement. So he pulled them out, arranged them in the carousel and gave his first show with the images mostly backward and upside down. Tipper said, "Hey, Mr. Information Superhighway, they have computers now. Maybe...