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Class is rarely openly discussed, but has a profound effect on academics, extracurriculars and social life. For some, Harvard is the great equalizer. For others, it's a fairy-tale land that distorts the inequalities of American society...
Class is rarely openly discussed, but has a profound effect on academics, extracurricular and social life. For some, Harvard is the great equalizer. For others, it's a fairy-tale land that distorts the inequalities of American society...
Students talk eagerly of asking their parents for pennies or finding pennies on the walk home so they can contribute their part. Every small copper coin now takes on profound significance...
Furthermore, everything is couched in vivid, passionate language, by turns profound and stirring, agonizing and impenetrable. At times, it acquires a poetic, almost musical tone; indeed, by the end, the play largely abandons meaning in favor of the pure beauty of words. But even through the middle of the play, the dense language poses no small challenge. The play consists of lengthy monologues--often delivered just a little too quickly--which leave one struggling to keep up. Revelations about the banality and fakeness of existence are liberally spiced with whimsical references and odd metaphors...
...VIEWPOINT, April 15] against allowing doctors to aid people in committing suicide, I was incensed at his cheap shot of inflammatory rhetoric when he derided the Dutch policy on euthanasia. He seems to want to instill fear in an aging American population. Not only did Krauthammer willfully overlook the profound differences in the Dutch and American health systems, he also seemed to misrepresent intentionally the facts of euthanasia in Holland, implying that involuntary euthanasia is a threat there...