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...citys earthy crevices. He looks down from his new height and thinks that to the insects unseen in the grass he would be, if they had a consciousness like his, God. In the year past he has grown three inches, to six feetmore unseen materialist forces, working their will upon him. He will not grow any taller, he thinks, in this life or the next. If there is a next, an inner devil murmurs. What evidence beyond the Prophet's blazing and divinely inspired words proves that there is a next? Where would it be hidden? Who would forever stoke...
...thought, what about me is Third World? This person did not understand. And when she saw my last name, her perception of my ethnicity was of someone from the Third World. So my feelings on it change. I really think that 500 years from now, everyone will look back upon all of these labels, and they'll seem ridiculous...
...Curricular Review. On Monday night, Knowles called the review a “major concern,” but did not specify how he intends to frame the debate.“Dean Kirby initiated a number of important new programs, and I’ll want to build upon good foundations that he’s laid,” Knowles said.At his final Faculty meeting as dean last week, Kirby said that a group of professors would draft legislation on general education over the summer—meaning that the Faculty may vote on a possible successor...
Last week the Japanese Parliament, following U.S. precedent, passed a law which would require all foreigners above age 16 to be photographed and fingerprinted upon entering that country. The Bush Administration has taken much heat for supposedly violating civil liberties or committing acts of racial-profiling in the name of homeland security. Such controversies are by no means restricted to the U.S. it seems. Supporters of the law cite its necessity in protecting Japan from terrorist attacks. They reason that as a steadfast ally of the U.S. and one of the few countries that dispatched troops to Iraq (and which...
...rights activist Shirin Ebadi spoke at a Harvard Book Store sponsored event yesterday, arguing Americans and Iranians “have no differences” despite sour relations between their governments, and that political change in Iran must first occur internally. “It is upon us Iranians to resolve these issues. It is not the job of foreign soldiers,” Ebadi said, speaking through an interpreter before a crowd of nearly 200 at the First Parish Church. Ebadi, an Iranian who is also a lawyer and one of the first female judges in Iran, became...