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...exotic corsican ram trotting about the 100-yard-long pen in central Pennsylvania paid little mind to the men approaching across the field. People were always walking in and out of the pen, as often as not with food for the flock. So the ram didn't resist when the men drove all the animals toward one end of the enclosure. It was only when the first arrow--fired from just yards away--struck it in the haunch that it realized something was up. The ram hobbled off and was struck by a second arrow, then a third. It stood...
This is not a political book, but Jamal can't resist describing a conference in Libya ostensibly to rally Arab nations to the Palestinian cause. It degenerated into a fierce debate about whether macaroni was the invention of the Italians, Libya's former colonial rulers, or was brought to Italy from China by Arabs. Writes Jamal: "Like many such conferences in Arab countries that are in principle to save Palestine, the only thing that was saved, finally, was the macaroni...
...grips with the meaning of someone like Aaliyah’s early demise. On the surface, there is palpable horror and profound sadness at any death of a young person with so much potential. Sometimes, though, if we are honest with ourselves, we may have the fortitude to resist the seemingly inevitable inertia ushering us towards unqualified despair. A.E. Housman found such a vision in his timeless “To an Athlete Dying Young,” when he bids a deceased youth farewell with the heartening words, “Now you will not swell the rout...
...grumble about your advisor, hold your tongue. Talk about something, anything, else instead: the Gold Medal fiasco, the hottie in your Warren Court section, Boston’s crappy weather. Even Crossroads would be a more appreciated, exhilarating conversation topic. And to everyone else out there not writing theses, resist the (incomprehensible) temptation and don’t ask about them. You know you’re not really interested, anyway, and your feigned curiosity only perpetuates the misconception that anyone actually cares about bibliographies, MLA-style footnotes and the cost of acid-free printing paper. Not to mention...
...Cornel West had made this a problem. They assumed that Summers had a legitimate grudge because they assumed Cornel West was somehow not of the caliber of someone like, say, Harvey Mansfield, or some other heavily-endowed professors at Harvard. And it seems to me that we need to resist that, and that it is there...