Word: sentimentals
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...folks running Al-Jazeera, arguably the most influential television station in the Middle East. As of this week, the outspoken network has officially been "encouraged" to "balance" its coverage of the region's news - i.e. "tone down" any anti-American sentiment...
What the cheering, beeping, waving passers-by on the morning of September 30 may have had a tough time explaining was the sentiment of the walkers. Hands in the air above their heads, each of them looked as if he or she was either on a forced march or about to part the Red Sea. In 26.2 miles of walking, some very interesting things start to happen. Blood, for instance, begins to pool in hands hanging down at the sides—and the praise-His-name gesture that most of the walkers adopted was an attempt to drain some...
...international upheavals. Most, while thrilled at America's free speech and its economic prospects, were shocked by the materialism, secularism and free morality that they encountered. Settling into lives as doctors, engineers or grocery-store owners, they contended with malls, disco and recurrent spasms of anti-Arab and -Muslim sentiment fueled by events such as the Arab oil boycott and the first World Trade Center bombing. Many also had vivid memories of American involvement in their home nations. A sizable faction was attracted to the Islamist movement, which argued for isolation from the American social and political system in favor...
...among those who express that sentiment...
...that requires his own best intentions and calls upon the wise counsel of the rest of the University. As my own time as an undergraduate winds down, I’d like to share with him the one fundamental insight that I have distilled from my Harvard experience, a sentiment I happen to share with many others who have passed through here. I feel strongly that if any one truth, one iota of Veritas, should guide Harvard under his administration, it should be Woodrow Wilson’s observation that “it is not learning but the spirit...