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...social injustice kicked into gear after she read a book on the Holocaust when she was 10, had been focusing on the charities and campaigns she held dear. Claiming that she didn't want to "die rich," she gave away around $6 million a year and planned to spend the rest of her time doling out grants and donations and lending her name to causes like stopping sweatshop labor and protesting the imprisonment of two of the "Angola 3" Black Panther members being held in a Louisiana state prison for a murder many say they didn't commit. Writing...
Then we return to it again in September, and spend the rest of the year listening to a great deal of words wondering why it is we are by-and-large unhappy. While hardly the rule for every single student, discontent has become somewhat of a dogma. Exhaustion and disillusion become lifestyle fads, and many busy themselves thinking up clever new ways to prevent them...
Many of my politics-minded friends, who gleefully spend their summers in the Washington D.C. swampland don’t quite understand my fascination with Hollywood. I’m accustomed to the general disinterest my passion provokes. But even if many such Institute of Politics (IOP) nuts can’t fathom a world in which most people don’t know who Alberto Gonzales is and why he resigned, the sad fact is that this is the world we live in. On the very day Gonzales resigned, most news stations focused on the dogfighting antics of Michael...
Welcome to Harvard, where you’re special. So special that you get to reside in historic dormitories that haven’t been renovated in decades, spend time in 70s-era failed experiments in anti-riot architecture, or if you’re really lucky, be exiled to fringe locations in the nether regions of our beautiful campus. Our condolences, Pennypacker residents. But by now, you’ve encountered the immutable Cambridge weather pattern that always makes freshman move-in day the hottest day of the school year. Don’t fret; you?...
...okayed an invasion force that was probably too small by half - and then agreed with U.S. envoy L. Paul Bremer to cashier the entire Iraqi army two months later. But it's also true that for four years, the Iraqi government has had literally more money than it could spend and yet has produced little to show for it. Basic supplies - oil, electricity, water - are chronically short. Inflation and unemployment are rampant...