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...meaning. We strive to understand who we are, where we came from, where we are going and why. For many people, the four years of undergraduate life offer the only interlude permitted for unfettered exploration of such fundamental questions. But the search for meaning is a never-ending quest that is always interpreting, always interrupting and redefining the status quo, always looking, never content with what is found. An answer simply yields the next question. This is in fact true of all learning, of the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities, and thus of the very core...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faust Inauguration Speech: 'Unleashing Our Most Ambitious Imaginings' | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...Beloved” 12 times, said she thought the author’s message, a theme present in many of her books, is also in line with Faust’s desire to reach out to members of the Harvard community in a “quest for more than just individual character.” Humanities Center Director Homi K. Bhabha said Morrison was an excellent choice for a speaker because she represents in her work the “American experience as it was in the past and as it is, the history of slavery, the history...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn and Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Morrison Recites Passage for Faust | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...enable, then, is democracy of a genuine sort. As the “best” represents always a subset of the general population, submission to the “best and the brightest” presupposes the annulment of properly democratic politics. Against this, in our wholly sensible quest for a better world, we must realize that we will all be empowered only once we each admit our individual powerlessness...

Author: By Adaner Usmani | Title: Against Leadership | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...include both. But this can’t be true, since the 1,115 of us taking Justice are well aware that we don’t have a midterm. Confused from this realization, I decided to try to find out what Core criteria actually are before beginning my quest for the Holy Grail of petition approval. I downloaded a 33-page document detailing the philosophy behind the Core Curriculum, the assumptions that helped develop the Core, detailed descriptions of each Core area, recommendations about when to take Cores, and requirements broken down based on concentration. There was one sentence...

Author: By Victoria B. Kabak | Title: MR-101: Philosophy of the Core | 10/2/2007 | See Source »

...played down several issues that would have supported Al Fayed's obsessive quest. For example, the jury will have to consider whether or not Diana was pregnant when she died. But Baker showed them the photo that some say proves she was, one in which a swimsuit-clad Diana appears to have a rounded belly - then stated that it was taken before Diana and Dodi even met. On claims that the couple were engaged, Baker noted that, yes, Diana had once teased journalists with a promise that "you're going to get a big surprise" - but, again, that was before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inquest Into Diana Death Begins | 10/2/2007 | See Source »

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