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...sports utility vehicle and a woman bites into her morning eggs and bacon. Across the world, villagers in a small town are hit by a hurricane of unusually high intensity—a storm that they were not expecting. The connection between these two groups of events may seem tenuous at first, but in our globalized age, the actions we take at Harvard can have direct effects around the planet. Many of our everyday habits—from charging our laptops and cell phones to eating industrially-produced food in the dining halls to tossing out our trash (which goes...
...rush to demonstrate a collective commitment to sociopolitical progressivism—to a tolerance of alternative sexualities and sexual lifestyles, that is—that we have suspended rigorous examination of these themes. Certainly, great strides have been in the academic area of gender studies, and the field does seem to provide a unique opportunity to engage students in otherwise marginalized subject matter. However, our commitment to engagement can cause the door of academic tolerance to be left open too wide, giving way to the pernicious sense that anything or anyone that presents an “alternative?...
...predictable structure of celebrity collaboration records. They even touch on all the issues: “They’re turning kids into slaves just to make cheaper sneakers, but what’s the real cost? ’Cause the sneakers don’t seem that much cheaper. Why are we still paying so much for sneakers when you are having them made by little kid slave babies—what are your overheads?” As disappointing as it was to see only one new track (a substance-less farewell track that?...
...murder he did not commit, all to save the brother whose care he once resented. As far as coming-of-age tales go, “The God of War” is no “Catcher in the Rye.” Ares’ developmental transitions seem sudden and uninspired, and his experiences with puberty and teenage angst seem trite, almost cliché. After the story’s climax, when Ares covers for Malcolm’s fatal mistake, the novel’s narrative structure takes a dive. Years of Ares’ life...
...learning to balance work and distractions, and by the time someone has made it to Harvard College or the University of Chicago Law School, he should be left to find that balance for himself. Surely, it’s troubling that many Harvard undergraduates don’t seem to take their academic experiences seriously, but it’s even more disconcerting to see overzealous administrators attempting to forcefully compel interest and attention...