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After a few thousand years, the jury is still out. As Jews are midway through observing the holiday of Passover, famed defense attorney and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz faced off against Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris in a mock trial of Pharaoh last night. The two men debated Pharaoh’s guilt on charges of persecuting and enslaving the Jews and attempted genocide but neither side won. Harris, who teaches Moral Reasoning 54, “‘If There Is No God, Then All Is Permitted,’: Theism...
...Charles] De Gaulle's regent while the general was off on an ill-timed state visit to Rumania, called off the police, let the students roam freely through the Latin Quarter. Then the lesson of the Left Bank dawned on the leadership of France's workers: that a few thousand students had forced the Gaullist regime to back down. Within hours, a spontaneous reaction swept all across France...
...Yiyun Li is author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and an assistant professor at Mills College in Oakland, California
...doing penance advised hisassociate to cover his head with a blanket; but the observer could not stop his ears. "Soon," said the witness, "I began to hear the forceful blows of his discipline ... there were more than a thousand terrible blows, precisely timed. The floor was covered in blood." That is not an early Da Vinci Code draft. It is a description of Opus Dei founder Escriv's routine by his eventual successor, quoted in a biography of Escriv. Escriv emphasized that others should not emulate his ferocity. But numeraries are expected, although not compelled, to wear a cilice...
...World Junior Championships but her third World Champion title in four years, a feat that has never been achieved by anyone else in the age group, according to Brand. He commented on the reasons for her success: “I think that is the 64 thousand dollar question,” he said. “Emily is a phenomenal person, with tremendous desire and determination. She sets her sights very high and works very hard to accomplish all these things.” “I think that is one of the things that happens when...