Word: ultra
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Last week, two notorious speakers were invited to Cambridge to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At MIT, Dovid Weiss, a leader of the tiny, rabidly anti-Zionist Ultra-Orthodox sect of Judaism known as "Neturei Karta," participated in a panel sponsored by several student groups as well as by MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. And at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Norman Finkelstein, an assistant professor at DePaul University, spoke at an event sponsored by the Palestine Awareness Committee, the Society of Arab Students, and other campus groups...
...voice rises to a playful falsetto, “The Civil War, is it Christian or not? And the War of Independence, was it right?” Karin Jentoft echoes her mother’s frustration with oversimplified attitudes towards homeschoolers.“The stereotype is being ultra-sheltered with a skewed view on reality,” Karin says. “Very far right.” While Karin Jentoft realizes the inaccuracy of these stereotypes, she does not offer her experience to be dissected as a counterexample. In fact, Jentoft rarely discusses her homeschooling experience...
...less than 11% of college students nation-wide were getting “a good night’s sleep” on a regular basis. Harvard, in particular, fosters an exceptionally insidious anti-sleep culture that compounds the conventional collegiate obstacles to sleep with demands arising from its ultra-competitive environment. This culture—or our sleep patterns—cannot be changed by a few well-meaning seminars and pamphlets. The problem is vast, but the solution is simple, sweet, and already known: Each of us must make a proactive decision to reform personal sleep habits...
...well as anger, would give hip-hop a special twist. A 30-year-old Miami native who recently moved to Israel, Jew Da Maccabi found rap before religion, but he's now putting his religion into his rap. He dons the black garb and practices the habits of an ultra-orthodox Jew, with a few hip-hop accessories such as a Yankees baseball cap instead of a broad-brimmed black hat. "After I became religious, I remembered what my rabbi said: 'Take what you did before, and flip it to holiness,'" says Maccabi...
...There are a lot of crossover characteristics,” Barrett said, as he spoke of Navy Seal recruiters from his hometown of San Diego who visit ultra-marathons over the summer to enlist runners for their mental and physical toughness...