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...betweem Israelis and Palestinians, but within Harvard’s Jewish community itself. CODE OF CONDUCTThe exhibit, which originally opened in Israel in June 2004, has created debate because of its provocative subject matter, as former Israeli soldiers “break the silence” and voice their reflections on their military experiences.One photograph, for example, features Israeli soldiers with the corpses of Palestinian militants after they had been killed by the IDF. The accompanying description explains that the photographs are self-documented “victory souvenirs” of the soldier’s military service.According...
...have grumbled at his push for a post-season embargo on your team. Yet, after 14 years at the helm of Ivy League sports, Orleans announced last week that he will be stepping down in June of 2009. Orleans is a distinguished figure, and we can admirably reflect upon his successful tenure and its accomplishments. At the same time, however, we are excited at the opportunity for change that a new executive director can bring. Orleans took groundbreaking steps to improve college life and college athletics. His brainchild, the Title IX legislation mandating equal funding for women?...
...Harvard has often been caricatured as a cold and unforgiving school if you are struggling with emotional problems. In that caricature, getting help represents failure. These misperceptions don’t reflect the reality that nearly 50 percent of graduating seniors have taken advantage of counseling or mental health services on or off campus at least once during their years here. The perception that people who seek help are weak detracts from ongoing efforts on behalf of a number of people and organizations to improve mental health services on campus...
...formed through third-party description, and their identities are further confused by paranoid and erratic actions that the reader can’t understand. In “The Soul Thief,” the gaze of others constitutes one’s self-conception. The narration and structure reflect the confused identities of each character. From the opening paragraph there is an uneasy tension between third-person and first-person narration. At times we are looking at the world through Nathanial’s eyes; at others we look down on him and his actions from above. Baxter?...
...your new book dealing with race and racial identity. Why at this point in your life or career did you decide to tackle these issues?AT: Personally, it only could have happened because up until recently I was overly concerned with how the work that I produced would reflect on me as a person...Working on this book I had a turnaround where I decided I wanted to not feel compelled to do fiction that would make the hypothetical reader think, “Oh, the guy who wrote this must be so sensitive or cool...