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...your heart.” Lipman also touched on the politics of Islam in China. He mentioned that the government’s statistical categorization of Muslims could reductively split the Muslim population into forced groups, an effect harmful to the ummah—or sacred sense of unity??of the Islamic community there. He also said that the translation of Islamic concepts into Chinese, a language with no monotheistic verbiage, poses a particular challenge. Several students, who did not attend the speech, said they felt well-informed about Islam already and found Harvard to be a religiously...
...face now is that while most of the Democratic candidates want change, they differ on how to get there. Some candidates like compromise, believe they can negotiate with those interests that are trying to harm us; some candidates hope that rhetoric and a fuzzy post-partisan “unity?? will be enough to see us through. But these attitudes are, at best, naïve; the wealthy and powerful are not simply going to hand their power away, and a president who does not understand that will ultimately just perpetuate the current system. If you want...
...fiction. I wrote to the committee chair with the observation that the document reminded me of the way the East German regime once cut a bridge to West Berlin in half and went on to name it the Brücke der Einheit, “Bridge of Unity?...
...mayor, a governor, or a congressman, and in 1960 a man named Kennedy even became the President of the United States. As the Irish began to flee their urban strongholds in places like the South Bronx, Hell’s Kitchen, and South Boston, the vital need for unity??the force that had driven the Irish to show their strength and argue for their right to exist—began to dissolve as well.And so St. Patrick’s Day became more important than ever.On March 17, Byrnes and O’Gradys, Cohans...
...most powerful government in the world, in one of the most diverse nations in the world, but the press corps doesn’t come even close to reflecting what America looks like.” Ernest R. Sotomayor—president of the organization for journalists of color, UNITY??said this of the Washington press corps. Although Harvard is not the most diverse school in the world, its students represent almost all ethnic backgrounds, but unfortunately The Harvard Crimson, like the Washington papers, does not reflect the diversity of the community it serves. The nation is evolving...