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...most unusual acts of protest I’ve ever heard of. As representatives of the Central Intellgence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) urged Harvard students to join up, a student forced himself to vomit into a bag. This act—supposed to symbolize the student’s disgust with the shoddy human rights record of America’s intelligence community—has become the subject of more discussion than any other puke in Harvard’s history. One man’s vomit has become a symbol of all that...
...There continues to be no better symbol of the two countries' inability to bridge their differences than the Yasukuni Shrine. In Tokyo this week, the rumor mill was working overtime, with suggestions that Koizumi has agreed to skip a visit this year as a gesture of good faith to the Chinese. That may or may not turn out to be the case. Yasukuni is controversial in Japan?some lawmakers say trips to the shrine are counterproductive. But others emphasize that those Japanese politicians who want to go to Yasukuni will never be compelled to stop simply because China asks them...
...Pope embodied true leadership and moral courage. He called evil by its name and fought it tooth and nail. He was a symbol of democracy and the pro-life movement. The world is in debt to this great man. The Pope was the moral compass of our generation...
...that goes for the traffic light-colored outfits and the really, really awkward sex afterwards. Sources say an air of desperation hung over the sea of sex-starved seniors like a slowly descending sword of Damocles. (English majors and Crimson Key geeks, all together now: Phallic symbol.) Since Harvard students couldn’t recognize a social semaphore if it started tickling their genitals, party organizers decreed a red, green, and yellow clothing system, allowing happy couples to flaunt their gloating, we’re-better-than-you-and-get-laid-on-a-regular-basis attitudes and alerting virginal nebbishes...
...plenary sessions, has appointed a balanced slate of three presiding cardinals: Johannes Willebrands, 76, a Dutch ecumenist who is president of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity; John Krol of Philadelphia, 75, a conservative on ecclesiastical matters; and Joseph Malula of Zaïre, 67, a symbol of the Third World, which accounts for three-fifths of both the synod delegates and the globe's 825 million Catholics...