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Whether judging students in section, or berating conservative classmates and friends, Harvard liberals should start practicing more of the open-mindedness and tolerance they so often preach...
While the officers of Hammered say they encourage students to pursue non-alcohol related activities, they insist that they never preach to students about their alcohol consumption. “We try to stay neutral. All we do is offer an alternative. We don’t say it’s bad and we don’t say it’s wrong,” says Matt N. Finkel, the soft-spoken but confident president of the organization. Among other activities, the members of Hammered played beer pong with broccoli (as opposed to beer) for a promotional...
...student can, as a rule, have only a few minutes. The doctor, on the other hand, allows any time up to two hours for a consultation. He does little talking and much listening, and he is not a disciplinarian. Any chaplain is obliged by training and conscience to preach moral warnings. The doctor's only duty is to discover causes, and by the discovery of these causes to find their cure. He cannot be shocked by delinquencies nor can he waste time in indignation...
Both Bush and Kerry face a basic political decision: whether to speak to the nation or preach to the choir. The urge to preach may be overwhelming. The number of undecided voters is minuscule, about 5% in most polls. Activists in both parties--Karl Rove and Howard Dean, for example--argue that the surest path to victory is to stoke the base, keep the partisans engaged and angry, and deal with those wimpy undecideds by tearing down the opposition with negative...
...members to form a circle and lay our hands on one another's shoulders. Then he stood in the middle and, while choked with emotion, he prayed that he would be capable of the task of leading us." Says fellow parishioner William Nared: "At most churches they just preach and preach about how I ought to be a good Christian man. But what's so powerful about the Purpose-Driven ministry is it also teaches me how to do it." All Saddleback members must abide by strict covenants to tithe regularly, do mission work locally or abroad and live...