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...White Teeth” is funny. It is a charming and thought-provoking look into British society, the immigrant experience not seen by the outside world. It reveals the society??s flaws, poking fun at everybody but condemning nobody. Zadie Smith shows the confusion of trying to understand the present in the context of a past that never existed; “The funny thing about getting old in a country is people always want to hear that from you,” Archie muses. “They want to hear it really was once a green...

Author: By Candace I. Munroe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Towards a Post-National Novel | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

Does it matter if Major League Baseball adopts a computer system to call its balls and strikes? While this could bring us closer to a fairer, purer game, it may—more importantly—prove to elucidate our society??s opinion on the fallibility of humans and the perfection of machines. Similarly, more important situations are occurring in terms of robotic surgery and computer operated cars, where the responsibility given to the human hand is fading. Although these innovations may offer better results for these previously human controlled tasks, the importance of the person in these...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran | Title: Strikes Mounting on Umpires | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...Because society??s moral axioms enervate attempts to convince the public to join this slim majority. Since Americans now shy away from a hierarchy of moral preferences, even those who would maintain their current care based on selfishness cannot be condemned. If forsaking current comforts for others would not be obligatory under our contemporary moral decorum, appeals for medical reform would then lose nearly all their persuasive force. While objectors rightly note that inaction hurts the uninsured, precisely because the currently comfortable might intend no harm, this complaint proves relevant but non-essential. In our modern mindset, sacrifice...

Author: By Gregory A. Dibella | Title: Centering the Health-Care Debate | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

Harvard Thai Society??s will be screening “Shutter,” a Thai horror film that was remade into this forgettable American film. Free Thai tea with Boba will be provided...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Halloween Happenings | 10/31/2009 | See Source »

Harvard Thai Society??s will be screening “Shutter,” a Thai horror film that was remade into this forgettable American film. Free Thai tea with Boba will be provided...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Halloween Happenings | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

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