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Obama's speech was profound, one of the most remarkable by a major public figure in decades. One question - perhaps the question -is whether its sheer audacity makes for good political strategy. By confronting the Wright controversy head-on, Obama ensured that it would drive the narrative about his campaign, and his race against Hillary Clinton, for days and perhaps weeks to come. He and his advisers no doubt calculated that nothing they could do would change that fact. But if one of the appeals of Obama's candidacy has been the promise of a post-racial politics, how will...
...speech that was not partisan. It was political with a small p and it was also philosophical. It was the most profound speech about race that I could recall in my lifetime...
...launch I arrived in Baghdad on the day the statue came down. Some of us who had been there before the war started were kicked out during the war. So I came back and the city was still in a state of shock. People realized that something important and profound had happened but they'd gone through so many disappointments before that they couldn't really come out and celebrate. So you had all these images on television of the flag being hoisted on top of the statue, the statue being pulled down, and some people in that square celebrating...
...many Harvard students, and seeking counseling unfortunately holds a stigma among many undergraduates. Students should be helped to understand that self-reflection is not limited to the stereotypical vision of a patient lying on a couch while a doctor looms in the corner taking notes. Encouraging engagement with profound questions in a group setting will lend legitimacy to students’ moral queries and create an intellectually-charged forum for introspection. The benefit that these groups could have on students will not only be the generation of a sense of community among peers, but more importantly, the formation...
...straightforward answer to this question is simple, although the effects of the column are more profound. One of the two editors of The Press’s opinion section wrote the column. Then it went under review by both opinions editor Amanda Pehrson and Editor in Chief Cassie Hewlings, who decided to run the column. “I was really hoping the article would be thought-provoking and didn’t want it to be hurtful at all,” the editor-in-chief later said. A disclaimer was considered, and then decided against...