Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unfortunate truth today is that true diversity of opinion and culture seldom exists in America. Year by year we watch as the tyranny of the majority gradually homogenizes our culture. The election proposed by Brian A. Shillinglaw '01 and Miranda E. W. Worthem '01 would do nothing but eliminate one of the last bastions of true intellectual diversity permitted on the Harvard campus...
...childlike joy and wonder left in all of us, if only we look for it within ourselves. It is so easy to abandon these things as the detritus of a journey to "maturity"; however, being older and "wiser" does not mean that we're any closer to the truth. When we are children, we often see the world in black and white, good and bad, right and wrong. Though human existence is filled with oceans of gray, the complexities and responsibilities of adult life often obscure the truth in more insidious ways--like Darth Sidious...
...fight and it is Lucas' artistic expression of these things that brings so many together for, yes, a movie. It really is true that the anticipation and opening of this film, drawing on our society's love for popular culture and, more importantly, often wordless search for truth, has brought people together like few other things can. Only once in my life have I sat in a theater of 700 people cheering throughout a movie, sharing the joy and wonder I felt with strangers...
There will be a lot of wringing of hands, whining and asking why, but the truth is that as long as we let society exist with no leadership, no morals, no ethics, no respect for others and contempt for family values, what we have just witnessed may be only the beginning of horrors we cannot even imagine today. You want to know where the problem lies? For most of us, the answer is no farther than the nearest mirror. DAVID WRAY Littleton, Colo...
Martin is finding that to be the truth. "It would be nice to have computer classes on my transcript," he says, but Tek.Xam has armed him with the power to learn those skills on his own--and a credential to show he has done so. He's now waiting to hear when his job as a network-support assistant for a large Boston firm will start...