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...believe in the Hereafter, in monotheism, in Revelation and in the authority of religious tradition. So did, it likely seems, the people who murdered thousands and themselves last week. That means that they and I belonged to the same subset of the human race, the community of the religious. It means that I have special responsibility for them. It means that, as a believing Jew, I must accept complete responsibility for the consequences of my own beliefs and, as a rabbi, of my own teachings. I must be eternally vigilant regarding both the implications of what I intend...
Whenever you turn on MTV or flip on your favorite radio station, you may hear, in as little as an hour, a wide sampling of artists and a taste of who’s who, what’s popular or whatever defines the subset of musicians that form the station’s current rotation. But this is vastly different than what you might normally expect from a concert. Even if you wasted your money on Mixfest, it still took you a full day to experience each band’s full...
...Many of his fellow drivers see their enemies either as rich ski folk defending their million-dollar chalets along the Volvo/Chardonnay line or as REI-outfitted granola eaters who want the backcountry to themselves. The greens in turn view the ATV crowd as an emission-spewing, beer-guzzling NASCAR subset that stops to smell the flowers only after running over them...
...Everyone recognized that she has a very keen intellect. One of the things that stood out was that Professor Sullivan was a member of a subset of [HLS] professors to whom students could readily relate," says Ross S. Antonson, who served as one of HLS's 1992 class marshals and is now a senior attorney at Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Minneapolis...
Almost every article on campus social life focuses on the issues of the final clubs, partying and bar-hopping set of students and their complaints about the lack of parties, the strict drinking rules and the dating scene. This group is only a subset of Harvard students, yet we hear exclusively about their particular social concerns...