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...student opposed to such public displays asserts that Harvard as an institution “needs to refrain from establishing religion.” Nonsense. Harvard is a private establishment that was originally founded to train ministers, and to this day maintains a diverse and active religious establishment in the form of the United Ministry. Harvard is not bound to refrain from establishing religion, nor should it be. In this light, the question of Christmas trees and public decorations becomes a specific policy question, not a broad issue of basic principles, and these specifics themselves must be discussed...
...manufactured bad-assery we have come to expect from Rock. He announces his style on “Forever,” the first single from the album. “I take hard rock / and mix it with hip hop,” Rock rhymes, repeating the refrain to mix in punk rock, southern rock and surf rock. The result is as tedious as the lyrics that announce it: an anthology for the angry, including punk, hard metal and nasty-boy rap. Rather than fusing these elements into something new, Rock takes the most obvious attributes of each...
While Harvard needs to be an institution that enables people to practice and even display their religions, it also needs to refrain from establishing religion. House Masters should try to learn from the Hanukkah candle lightings that will take place in each House this year. The menorahs will be in common rooms, they will be set up only for an hour or two each of the days that they are to be lit, and students will be coordinating the religious ritual of their own accord. No student will be forced to choose between eating and being in the same room...
...difficult to foresee a situation in which an employee would be ordered to refrain from speaking at all with students,” he wrote in the General Counsel’s Office’s first statement since being contacted by The Crimson four weeks...
Continuously mixed, it is a long, undulating stream of sample and beat alchemy that peaks repeatedly, comes down smoothly and surges forward again before finally ending on a chilled refrain of the opening theme. The transitions are so smooth that it’s impossible to tell when songs start and end; at first a woman announces that “Since I left you / I’ve found the world so new;” five tracks later we end up in the disco, where a ragga emcee is mashing it up with De La Soul...