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...Beirut: it's not always possible to tell the difference between the old war damage and the new. Beirut is ramshackle and delightfully dilapidated in some parts - mostly the poor Shi'a parts, which are also the main target areas. Sometimes you realize that a balcony that appears freshly shorn off actually collapsed in the 1980s...
...well-meaning but ineffectual Shah of Iran hissed by his subjects and hamstrung by the wizened old weeper Mossadegh, who had done his best (or well-intended worst) to bring the whole world to a standstill in 1951. It saw Elizabeth herself succeed to a throne long since shorn of its last vestige of political power, to reign over a Commonwealth whose only union was in tradition and assent...
Harvard’s House system isn’t working. Shorn of their pre-randomization characters and rendered impotent by insular blocking groups, the College’s 12 Houses can’t possibly hope to transcend their own bricks and mortar to become viable incubators of community. A significant change in how Harvard assigns its students is long overdue; since randomized housing, any success at creating House community has come in spite of the system, which fricassees House populations into complete incoherence along blocking group lines...
...writes: “The newly prominent hairless man is a sign of the convergence of gay and straight culture.” He concludes with a rhetorical question: “Where can one find reflections of manliness, if everywhere you turn, the American male seems boyish, hairless, shorn of any sign that he is an adult...
Harvards system of Houses would benefit tremendously from the reinvention of the Housing lottery. Shorn of their pre-randomization era characters, Houses are presently prevented from serving their purpose as effective campus communities. By giving freshmen a place to call home even before they arrive, by breaking down the intra-house barriers imposed by blocking groups insularity, and by making participation in House life a fundamental part of all four years at Harvard, the introduction of Yale-style housing would give Houses the chance to realize their potential...