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...biblical proportions was about to change our lives forever. Mistakes were made - too many of them fatal and irreversible - on all levels. Although there must be a thorough accounting of what went wrong and why, I beg the media to focus on the kindness and strength of the human spirit that we are seeing now. Just as with 9/11 and the Indian Ocean tsunami, good can come out of disaster. We have some tough choices ahead. I pray that we make the right ones. Jane LaBreche Hebert Friendswood, Texas, U.S. Katrina and its aftermath demonstrate our misplaced priorities: cutting taxes...
...alcohol czar’s campaign to make us realize that we don’t binge drink isn’t working. We were all drunk when we took the survey! Nevertheless, in this tee-totalling spirit, we give you our first (and last) non-alcoholic Drinky Drink...
...spirit of the impending release of the “Student Essays On the Purpose and Structure of a Harvard Education,” I’d like to throw out my own little suggestion. What if every student was required to take a seminar-style course entitled “Representations of the Intellectual”? Through the examination of novels and philosophical texts (such as Edward Said’s beautiful book of the same name), the course would present a variety of views on the intellectual from the ultra-conservative to the ultra-liberal. It would...
...like-music that awakens a deeply emotional chord in my being. West's The College Dropout rotates in my CD player between operas by Puccini and Bizet, although I listen more now to West. His lyrics and music are soul-baring and thought-provoking and speak to the human spirit like great opera. Roberta A. Shoulberg Neshaminy Valley, Pennsylvania...
...very pretense to isolate a history of the West is artificial and does not reflect the many complicated intercultural interactions that the course’s professors themselves admit have been central. The course in general presents a primitive determinism, as if Western culture were an essence or a spirit which realized itself in the course of two millennia, thus betraying the sophisticated comparative analyses practiced by many Harvard historians...