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...question of student segregation is a murky moral issue that is not easy to resolve. But what Dean Jewett needs to realize is that if he attempts to take a stab at resolving it by instituting randomization, the immediate and tangible inconveniences that students suffer will far outweigh the vague benefits that might be achieved by the change...
...Lockerbie, Scotland. Today a planeload of 150 Muslim pilgrims left Tripoli for a pilgrimage to Mecca -- only to turn right around and land again. Then U.N. officials decided to make an exception for religious flights, saying, "Libyan pilgrims should not be denied the right to pilgrimage and should not suffer for the actions of their government...
When Coupland does deal with more interesting characters, like Cathy and Pup-Tent, the dysfunctional punk rock couple form "My Hotel Year," the story itself begins to suffer. Before the story can go anywhere, Pup-Tent leaves, and the narrator intrudes to give more self-absorbed commentary. "Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are the people who are unable to connect with the profound..."Just as we are unable to connect the terminally vague...
...need God that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind..."Despite this attempt to articulate a new hope, Life After God soon begins to suffer, not from void, but from ambiguity...
...seems to me that any 19-year-old who has overcome the odds Grant faced has more "moral character" and "maturity" than any of the deans who passed judgment on her application. Grant will always suffer from her mother's murder. That should be Grant's private suffering, not Harvard's moral cause...