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...From the moment first-years arrive on campus, they are divorced from the rest of the undergraduate community. They live in their own dormitories, on their own section of campus, with their own dining hall. In the spring, whatever community is formed among first-years as a class is torn apart when the housing lottery rolls around. Once tossed randomly into Houses, students face a whole new challenge in trying to re-form a community having already made friends scattered around campus...
...York have never before suffered a similar attack. Even so, terrorism will not dismantle our freedoms and liberties, and this attack will not undermine the foundations of the republic. America has seen British troops burn the capital in the War of 1812, and it has seen a country torn in two during the Civil War. The Sept. 11 attack has not created a crisis of such grave proportions that it would justify the suspension of democracy in New York. Indeed, that would be the worst response to the attack on democracy that occurred three weeks...
...survive, but as soon as he felt his people were probably safe, he devoted his attention to building up a peaceful coalition of tribes and achieved victory by an ingenious and inspiring campaign of nonviolence. When he died in 632, he had almost single-handedly brought peace to war-torn Arabia...
...Edgar V. Thomas ‘05, the recent terrorist attacks in Washington D.C. and New York are a glaring reminder of the constant dark cloud of violence he fled in his native war-torn Sierra Leone. Following the erruption of civil war in this West African, diamond-rich country, rebels gained control of the United Nations-occupied capital, Freetown, where Edgar and his family lived. “I had to pack my whole life into two suitcases,” Edgar recalls in a calm, matter-of-fact tone...
...were the clothes in my suitcase, because I had fooled myself into thinking we were only going to be away from Sierra Leone for a week or so”. Edgar had visited the United States before on vacation, but the move from war-torn Africa to the American south would prove difficult for him. “I had always wanted to live in the United States”, Edgar recalls, “but it wasn’t all it was cut out to be…but at least for the first time in a long...