Word: yokes
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...choose to dwell on in the story of Moses says as much about our dreams and fears as it does about Scripture. Eugene Rivers, a Pentecostal minister in Boston's poor Dorchester neighborhood, has depicted Moses as an African revolutionary to teach gang members about throwing off the yoke of slavery to drugs ... Moses is a universal symbol of liberation, law and leadership, eulogized by Elie Wiesel as "the most powerful hero in biblical history ... After him, nothing else was the same again." --TIME...
...five years on, the yoke is coming down on the Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China. Last week, the administration of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa unveiled what was always going to be one of the most sensitive pieces of legislation after the handover: the implementation of Article 23 of the Basic Law, calling for a provision against subversion...
With that unnerving remark, my eyes strained towards the ground to assess whether or not my long-neglected pinky toes had, as Teddy predicted, been rendered gimpy and disfigured from years spent under the yoke of New Balances. Pointing to his own feet, Teddy illustrated the sort of vigorous, proud and gloriously unmarred pinky toes that could flourish in the absence of shoes. I again peered downward in an effort to survey the damage wrought by 20 years of intense shoe dependency and I found only two withered stubs masquerading as pinky toes. They looked less like natural appendages...
...against each other, paving the way for the ethnic implosion of the 1990s. When the Europeans finally “decolonized” in the 1950s and 1960s, they left in charge a group of European-educated elites who cared little for the people. The color of the yoke changed, but not much else—and most Africans never got a starting chance. The result has been failed states like Sierra Leone, DRC and Somalia...
Sure, you can continue to live the life molded for you, accepting the yoke of the expectations and evaluations imposed by Harvard forefathers, or you can make a stand. When you get down to it, this is the struggle of a generation. Toss your grade obsession to the wind and take a chance. Fill in that little porthole to happiness on your study card and you will never look back. There is too much to do, too much life to live, too many mistakes to be made and reminisced about and too many drunken e-mails to ex-girlfriends...