Word: soule
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College campuses in Pakistan are becoming prime battlegrounds in the war for the country's soul. Political organizations have been banned from schools since 1992, when violent clashes between the student wings of rival political parties led to the deaths of dozens of students. But by outlawing political activity, the government opened the door to religious organizations such as I.J.T., which acts as an advocacy group that serves as a liaison between students and administration. Founded in 1947, I.J.T. has hundreds of thousands of alumni who provide the group with organizational and financial support, with the goal of "training...
...editors: Re: “The Dungeon on Dunster Street,” comment, Oct. 3. It’s true. The Core office has stolen the soul of liberal arts from Harvard. It’s true that it can be a bureaucracy marked by arrogance in its personnel and inflexibility in its policy. It’s all true. The Core is, in a word, evil. Still, this need not be cause for despair and lamentation. Sure, they’re annoying. But have you noticed that they’re all the way over there on Dunster...
...able to afford to rap over. This track is only worth the one laugh that you always get from Jeezy’s ad-libs. (“YEEEEEEEAHHHHHH.”) Next comes “Money Maker,” a track that would annihilate the soul of any backpack hip-hop fan on contact. A track that officially makes Pharrell, the mastermind behind this war crime of a song, the most wretched living thing ever to use his voice or hands. The song is essentially Slim Thug’s “I Ain?...
...other album track look like a bodyguard, a member of the faceless posse that accompanies any shining star. So why does the music video hold it back so grotesquely? Directed by Benny Boom, this expensive, cowardly straightjacket of a video turns the epileptic Lil’ Wayne and his soul-infused partner Robin Thicke (“he strapped”) into… a tenant in a yuppie apartment complex. In no way does this video fit the song. Where is the casual violence? The chaos? The attack on everything and anything civilized? Where is the condensed 100-year...
Lewis, whose recent book criticizing Harvard’s curriculum, “Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education,” was footnoted in the report, said he was shocked that the proposals had emerged from a six-member faculty committee that met for the first time this June...