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...Sport Re "The talented Torero" [March 27], on matador Mehdi Savalli, the up-and-coming star of Spanish bullfighting: How can Time, a respected magazine, publish a story on such a despicably brutal pastime? Its fans are sadistic, inhumane and intent on continuing a medieval tradition of blood sport. Shame on you for glorifying such horror. Nowhere in the article was there any mention of the ethical debate over bullfighting or the Spanish cities that have banned it! Ingrid Martens Brussels
...Safah, a fresh-faced girl whose fingers are still pudgy with baby fat. The nurse's modest hijab framed a sweet face that made Safah feel that the nurse was a good, spiritual woman, one she could trust. The nurse convinced Safah that she could be killed over the shame her disappearance had brought to her family. The nurse offered to adopt her. But official channels would have taken too long, so the nurse told Safah to hold her lower-right abdomen, scream and writhe on the carpet of the orphanage director's office, pretending to have appendicitis and requiring...
...aristocracy for lives of inherited wealth. A real curricular review in today’s socio-economically diverse and distinctively American Harvard would have encouraged students to achieve their best rather than enjoy dumbed-down requirements. In the classroom as on the field, Harvard should find pride rather than shame in students’ ambition for expertise, and should shape rather than suppress their competitive spirit...
...doing so, they strategically sidestep the most salient dimension of illegal immigration—that millions of immigrant families have already settled down as Americans. The law is effective only in so far as it can be applied practically and humanely. It would be a shame to let a rhetorical ruse convince us otherwise...
...Presented as a joint venture by the Undergraduate Council, the Ann Radcliffe Trust, and the Office for the Arts with producer Kim Chen ’08 and director Mary E. Birnbaum ’07, this story of a proud widow who attempts to keep her household from shame by oppressing her five rebellious daughters suggests sexual frustration and a deep disillusionment with men. These themes collide forcefully with the claustrophobia of small-town life in Spain at the turn of the century. Written by Federico Garcia Lorca and running in the Loeb Experimental Theater until April...