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...wife, or faith, to lose; I could hope for a view-altering experience without fear. But the unholy ritual at Loews channeled less Hawthorne’s Salem than the New England of my day. Which is to say, Harvard...
...seemed to feel that Boston fans were just a little bit entitled (imagine that!), unbearably smug and boastful when their teams won, and sulky and defensive when they didn’t.It was earth-shattering, to learn that outside my safe, championship-filled Massachusetts bubble my people could be viewed in such a light. But as difficult as it was to learn that not everybody thought like me, soon something even scarier happened: I learned that some of the people who didn’t think like me might be right—at least about some things. It?...
...ones who abandon their hometown teams or pick up a Sox-habit only after freshman move-in—are the real problem for the Crimson Yankees fan.Two weeks later, the Curse of the Bambino ended. The fifth floor of Weld Hall again provided an excellent view of the festivities as the Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years and pandemonium reigned in the Yard. Two years after that I became a member of the first Harvard College class since that of 1919 to witness multiple Red Sox championship teams. As my father put it when...
...This is no easy task. In dealing with a strange and distant place, there is a great risk of simplification. Policy makers and the public want an easily digestible analysis, distinguishing good from bad and recommending blanket action. Academics who insist on a nuanced view are often sidelined. Their role in framing the debate is then filled by an obliging but inexpert press, which resorts to dismissive stereotypes when their Manichean analysis breaks down...
...enough for Harvard and other American institutions to provide a balanced view on Iraq that offsets the stereotypes and simplifications peddled in the media. It is the task of Iraqi educational institutions to elaborate a national discourse that neither belittles any of its constituent groups, nor threatens national unity. Through the knowledge that they create, they must project a varied and accurate image of Iraq both to Iraqis and to the outside world. They must also play the primary role in opening Iraq to new knowledge from outside...