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...friend, a journalist, who told me to turn on my television. I had this very curious dream that late that night, or early in the morning. I have no way of explaining this. I'm the farthest way from a New Age type of person, in spite of living in California. But it was a dream in which I was on an airplane and sitting next to another woman, a stranger. Two young men came up carrying pistols and shot twice. I remember in the dream the bullet went through my throat and the throat of the woman next...
Eschewing his characteristic jeans and T-shirt in favor of a gray suit, Petersen touched on students’ struggles to become active decision makers “in spite of limitations from above...
Much has changed since that dark moment in history, but modern Turkey, beholden as it is to the Young Turk perpetrators and in spite of the light of historical perspective, still refuses to admit the taint on its history and clings to dramatic understatements of the death toll. Turkey cannot continue to deliberately avoid dealing with the disturbing facts of its history. Other countries have stared their genocidal demons in the face, and the fact that they have done so is a sign that they have moved past a dark era in their history...
...course the edge looks different to him, since he has lived on it. It's a cliché that strength comes from adversity. But clichés are often just hard truths tamed by familiarity. Maybe he triumphed in spite of his ordeals, not because of them. There is no control group, he observes, that lets you measure what you missed. In raising his own daughter, he felt the pull to protect her, even as he wondered at the cost. "Maybe a few hard knocks ..." but his voice trails off. He didn't want to experiment...
Since the move to give students an extra semester to declare concentrations, departments have shuffled requirements and abbreviated tutorials—intense, introductory seminars that have long defined undergraduate study at Harvard. But in spite of the condensed curriculum, department administrators stress that their course offerings have not been watered down. The majority of humanities and social science concentrations—including African and African American studies, government, and history and literature—will offer a one-semester sophomore tutorial in the spring, instead of the traditional class spanning sophomore year. “We have...