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...number and strength of terrorists, has instead increased them. What was needed was to break the infernal cycle of the "clash of civilizations," à la Sam Huntington and Osama bin Laden. Instead, the war breathed new life into it. In short, rarely have the famous words of Blaise Pascal rung more true: "He who would act the angel becomes the beast." What begins as a noble moral intention to bring down a tyrant becomes a political disaster and a gigantic step backward in the long, necessary war against fascislamism. A field of ruins...
...that such examples were not used in this article to better define ambition. Instead, Britney Spears and Sean (Diddy) Combs are used as examples of people whose ambitions led them to succeed. If the ladder to the top includes their like, then I would rather get stuck on the rung of indifference. Joshua Lange Nagano, Japan...
Since the mid 1960s, Memorial Church’s bell has rung mostly on an automated timer—from 8:40 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. to call congregants for the morning service, at 9 a.m. to mark the first class, and every hour until 4 p.m. on Mondays through Fridays to mark the changing of the classes. On Saturdays, the bell rings as if it were a weekday, but stop by 1 p.m. because the University holds some Saturday classes, according to Reverend Peter J. Gomes, who is Plummer professor of Christian morals and The Memorial Church?...
...University holidays and on memorial days, the church’s bell is still hand-rung by Campbell, who has become an expert over the past 10 years at climbing through the church’s catwalk on narrow beams to reach steep metal staircases and cluttered platforms with large windows. On the highest platform, he climbs a thin metal ladder that finally brings him up to a door that opens onto to a small space high above the Yard...
...last time the bell was rung by hand was Nov. 11, in memory of Harvard students who died in Korea and Vietnam...