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...because a commencement speaker, Zayed M. Yasin ‘02, was to deliver a speech entitled: “Of Faith and Citizenship: My American Jihad.” Based simply on the word “jihad”—which means “struggle??—and without familiarity of the actual speech, members of the Harvard community tried to pressure Harvard to have Yasin censored or removed as a speaker. Yasin even received death threats. And while President Summers did go through the motions of stating his support of Yasin?...
While many operas have examined this struggle??from “Aida” to “Tosca,” from “Les Huguenots” to “Andrea Chenier”—this particular work observes the misguided idealism of the French Revolution that sweeps up the Carmelites, a small convent of dedicated and idealistic nuns. “Dialogues” focuses on the uncertainty and vulnerability of the sisters, intensifying their fear and pain with intimate music and unstable melodies and dialogues...
...released album, “Right About Now: The Official Sucka Free Mix CD,” unfortunately maintains this holding pattern of mediocre beats (with the exception of the tribal drum Kanye-esque meta-rap of the title track), it is not as unlistenable as “Struggle??; at times Kweli’s ’97-’98 brilliance shines through. Talib is recuperating here, showing his audience that his career is not restricted to hip-hop-lite collaborations with Mary J. Blige (instead bringing in underground heavyweights MF Doom and Jean...
...Even the report’s sometimes-contradictory terminology reflects this struggle??—the broad general education courses are to be “integral, but optional...
When President Bush announced that the U.S. was at war with Iraq two years ago—entangling our generation for years in an impossible struggle??many of my classmates and I walked out of class and protested in Harvard Yard. We marched to MIT and continued across the bridge, across Back Bay and into Government Center. We were solemn; we were angry. There were thousands of us. People throughout Boston waved in solidarity. And then we all went home. And nothing changed...