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Regarding Kevin Davis's March 18 Tech Talk column on Apple: yes, it is tempting for The Crimson, like so many other media outlets, to join in the "let's gang up on Apple" phenomenon. In fact, many have been claiming the imminent demise of Apple for the last 15 years, and it has never happened...
Members of my Harvard Hebrew class are perfectly representative of this larger liberal phenomenon. During a weekly discussion session in the fall, the issue of the presidential election arose. There was a general assumption that all present would vote for Clinton. I interjected that I was a registered Republican. Nobody paid much attention since national polls indicated that many Republicans, particularly women, were planning to vote for Clinton. The discussion prepared to move forward. I interrupted to explain that I planned to cast my vote for Dole. Shock froze several people. A minute before I had seemed so normal...
This comfortable space is a recently new phenomenon. For many years, especially in high school, I pretended to be politically neutral and denied my Republicanism. I refrained from defending my partymen in the interest of self-preservation; I knew I would be derided were I to admit my true political leanings. It truly enraged me though to see what a beating Republicans took, but I kept silent. When political opinions were necessary, I responded with the liberal party line--and was rewarded. I always worried that if I had given a different response, my grade would have been lower...
Flatley's robust sense of self, combined with a stupefyingly energetic stage presence, has made him the center of a cultural phenomenon few would have predicted--a rage for the jig. As star of the two-year-old, 85-member Riverdance, the traveling Gaelic dance show, Flatley hopped, stepped and high-kicked to exultant houses in London and Dublin. When he parted ways with the company in October 1995 over a bitter, and still unresolved, creative dispute, he fashioned Lord of the Dance, a glitzier rival extravaganza showcasing his talents and the updated, freer-form manner of Irish dance...
...cite denominational differences and the ongoing religious split between modernists and traditionalists. Episcopalians have always been less eager than Baptists to stress the hereafter. Liberal mainline pastors are more reluctant than Evangelicals to review the joys of eternal communion with the living God. Yet with some notable exceptions, the phenomenon seems transdenominational. Martin Marty, the respected University of Chicago religious historian, says, "I can recall from my [Lutheran] childhood many sermons on what used to be called the geography of heaven and the temperature of hell. Now the only time you hear of heaven is when somebody has died." David...