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When you appeared for freshman registration in 2006, five years to the day after 9/11, President Bush was declaring us “safer?? if “not yet safe”; the Dow was climbing toward its all-time high; and the world was rumbling along, or so it seemed, toward eternal prosperity. It was a world in which growing proportions of Harvard seniors were set to join Wall Street or consulting firms, a world of relatively secure jobs and high-paying careers, a world that was your oyster...
...Although in recent years Israel might have become a “safer?? place to live, it still faces the same existential threat it did over 60 years ago. It doesn't need an internal struggle as well; the external one more than compensates. It makes perfect sense, then, that the government would prevent young Arabs from learning (in schools, at least) to consider the state’s creation a “catastrophe.” And who would fault Israel for doing what it can to prevent a sense of disloyalty from unraveling the very...
...barely long enough.As has become customary, new songs from the band are already appearing in their ensuing tour. This material seems to indicate a more settled, atmospherically uniform sound than ever before, but as outtakes from “Strawberry Jam,” like “Safer?? and “Water Curses,” failed to predict the shift toward “Merriweather Post Pavilion,” it’s understood that Animal Collective are nothing if not unpredictable. For the moment, this piece appears to complete the triptych that began...
...Pilbeam’s conduct amounts to an utter and total sandbagging of the undergraduate community. But even if one gets past the manner in which the nixing of the Party Fund was handled, University Hall’s assertion that the campus will be somehow “safer?? without it is extremely dubious. In reality, it appears from his letter that Pilbeam left a crucial element of student safety completely out of his calculus.Quashing UC-funded parties—which occur on campus and in areas regulated by the College—will not stop students...
...United States and turned Iraq into a rallying point for terrorist recruitment. America seems poised to hand the world another failed state mired in internal strife—a breeding ground for the terrorists the United States is ostensibly fighting. The world has become less safe—not safer??since the United States invaded Iraq...