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...editors: In her comment on Christianity at Harvard (“Goodness Gracious,” Apr. 17), Ms. Caldwell identifies a phenomenon that should not be seen as a problem. Bemoaning what she sees as an insufficient level of anger on the part of Christian students reacting to the Owl Club’s “Catholic Schoolgirl Party,” she points out that “most of Harvard’s Christians turned the other cheek despite the offensive nature of such an event.” While Ms. Caldwell longingly observes that...
...Georgia bill was considered so draconian, in fact, that it quickly sparked a diplomatic war of words. On Tuesday, Mexico's President Vincente Fox declared that Georgia's law included "acts of discrimination" and "half measures insufficient to resolve the complex phenomenon of immigration between Mexico and the United States." The reaction in Georgia to Fox's comments was typical of the heightened rhetoric that has fueled the Act since it was introduced at the beginning of the year. "I would suggest the government of Mexico stop concerning themselves with what we do in Georgia and instead worry about their...
...mailing list can shut the door on a nascent political career. That it’s a megaphone in time as well as in space is harder to internalize, though, particularly when we mean time in a broader sense which spans generations.But it’s a phenomenon that’s here to stay. So as we write and publish and speak our minds, we shouldn’t forget the lasting impact of our words. Court records, news stories, and senior theses all may soon be under Google’s watchful eye. At the very least, when...
...easier for us to contact them,” said the society’s co-president, K. Edward Chan ’06, who said that this year had the largest participation in the event’s history. “Karaoke is a big phenomenon in Hong Kong and China.” The winner, Vincent See, a senior at Brown, sang his way to success with “Ai Shi Yong Heng” (“Love is Eternal”) and “Dan Che” (“Bicycle?...
...realized that that kind of spontaneous In box--to--In box sharing, following the and-they'll-tell-two-friends model, could ever add up to much, let alone scale to the level of a mass medium. "It wasn't as though a marketing firm attempted to create the phenomenon," says Michael Girard, one of the programmers who helped create the Dancing Baby...