Word: preying
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...might be tempted to write off Kosovo as just another Balkan bloodletting. But if the U.S. is to take seriously its credo of humanitarian intervention, politicians and the public need to understand how and why people in the supposedly civilized world fall prey to animal violence. Kosovo has bred fresh hatreds that will lie unresolved beneath every political and social change the West tries to make in this corner of Europe. And we are faced once again this century with the tasks of assigning individual blame for horrors committed in the name of national policy, and determining how best...
...feel nostalgic for the Mondale Presidency." It would rather refer to the prevalent feeling that things used to be better in the past, even though that past is one that is more imagined that real. As one of the most richly mythologized institutions in the country, Harvard often falls prey to this same attitude. Consider a few cases of nostalgia for Harvard experiences that never happened or at least never happened in the way we would like to think they...
...they try to get our attention. If you are one of those mysterious poster-trolls who traverse the Yard at dawn to wallpaper it with your fluorescent dreams--tearing down competing posters in the process, of course, you inconsiderate fiends--you know that campus posters succeed best when they prey on our fantasies. No one wants to read about the Kendo Club. But if your poster says, "FREE HOT PHONE SEX...come to the Kendo Club," someone will read it. This principle never fails...
...lesser kestrel, a small red, black and gray bird of prey, is more hawk than dove. But in a symbolic sense it carries an olive branch in the Middle East. Confronted by devastating changes in its habitat, the bird is endangered in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Now dozens of Jewish and Arab schoolchildren, recruited by conservationists Dan Alon and Nader al Khateeb, have come together to help save the kestrel--and learn lessons in cooperation and friendship...
...moral certainty. The game alerts players to the potentialities of surprise, and especially surprise betrayal, and betrayal is part of the general business of life, even undergraduate life at Harvard. In Assassin, not a stranger but an acquaintance or friend becomes stalker, raptor, assassin, and acquaintance or friend becomes prey, target, probably victim. Maybe the game belongs outside Harvard, but maybe it should endure and prosper here because it teaches that betrayal lurks always within the gates, within any gates...