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...this institution. The social hierarchy at Harvard is well-defined, not by race or wealth, but by date of graduation. Quincy’s expulsion of freshman diners is just another example of the feeling of upperclassman entitlement and the barbaric belief that we must endure a year-long rite of passage in order to become full-fledged members of this college. Meanwhile, Annenberg food is infamously unappetizing, which serves only to exacerbate the freshman-upperclassman divide...
...message. They weren't alone. In the spring, the mayor of San Francisco began his doomed assault against the existing order by simply declaring he would ignore the law and grant marriage licenses to gay couples in city hall. Thousands lined up day after day for a simple civil rite most Americans--Britney Spears included--tend to take for granted. They knew the licenses would almost certainly be revoked. But they got them anyway. They and their fully legal brethren in Massachusetts provoked a counterinsurgency by the social right. A federal amendment to ban civil marriage for gays was introduced...
...deer-hunting season, which begins the Saturday before Thanksgiving. As much as that holiday and Christmas, the nine-day season is a time when families and friends gather. In the woods, men, women and children all join in, and a child's first excursion is often viewed as a rite nearly as solemn as First Communion. But this year the joy was interrupted almost as soon as it began. On Sunday, Nov. 21, a man in the North Woods opened fire on a group of fellow hunters, all clad in the orange garb that is supposed to prevent accidental shootings...
...Ruzhou killings are part of a chilling rite of passage endured by modern societies all over the world. Ruzhou was the sixth in a string of deadly attacks on Chinese schoolchildren that began in August, when a schizophrenic janitor at a Beijing kindergarten stabbed 14 children, killing one, according to police. A bus driver in Shandong province was executed earlier this month for slashing 24 kids in September; last month, a teacher in Hunan province was arrested for killing four students and wounding 12; two weeks later a man in Beijing was arrested for killing a six-year...
...absence of hope or opportunity,” Lipper explained, these adolescents create some sense successfulness for themselves by forming a family. “No one had ever told them about opportunities to work towards, and there wasn’t really a rite of passage” like going to college, she said. As a result, teen mothers “use the resources they have” to create one for themselves...