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...paper of record, The Crimson, also could not permit silence to drown out hope. Only Barack Obama, it opined, has the “vision required not only to be president, but to fundamentally alter the way our broken political system functions” and a singular “desire to see dramatic change in the political system.” Brimming with nostalgia for the 1970s, those halcyon years for campus radicals, The Crimson can only view the political landscape through rose-colored glasses...
...college students leave home to find themselves in a new, often strange, places. But students like Sengeh, Dlamini, and Fakhro, find themselves in a unique situation. As the only students from their respective countries, they encounter their own set of challenges. But they have the singular opportunity to introduce a culture and a point of view that no other Harvard student can provide. Luckily, the Harvard student body is receptive.“People here actually care about your background and always want to learn more,” Dlamini says. “You’re not easily...
...right to parcel out prosperity and peace, a heaven-sent arbiter of life and death. Even after he was forced to relinquish power, Suharto dwelt among his countrymen as if invulnerable to mortal retribution, as if Indonesia could not act against the man who was once its infallible, singular autocrat. When he died on Sunday, January 27 in Jakarta, at the age of 86, the islands of Indonesia shuddered...
...Monfreid was at once a wild man and a philosophe, whose tender soliloquies on the joys of an unfettered life at sea, with nothing but the naked stars above, retain an immense power to seduce. While Hashish may be an acutely self-conscious literary artifact, it is also a singular self-portrait of a defiant spirit, who spurned "the slavery of some dreary job" and "the frivolous and treacherous world" of conventionality. The book had almost drowned in obscurity. Now it has resurfaced to beguile a whole new generation of readers...
...that conclusion, he admits, may put him at loggerheads with familiar foes. No one, he says, could accuse him or anyone else of trying to disprove God's existence on the basis of an fMRI. But faith is more vulnerable. "People who feel that religious faith is a singular operation of the brain - if they admit that it's an operation of the brain at all - would object to what I'm doing, since it may show that faith is essentially the same as other kinds of knowing or thinking. The whole thing will seem fishy to anyone who thinks...