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Preaching Politics

You learn a lot from the Bible. There are, first, the moral teachings: Love your neighbor, obey the Ten Commandments

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The Gossip Column

I am a celebrity junkie. My favorite magazine is Vanity Fair, I occasionally make forays into Entertainment Weekly and, in

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Is Osama Really After Our Cattle?

Forget smallpox. What really keeps the anti-terrorism bureaucrats up nights is foot-and-mouth virus. Last spring, the Bush administration tried to

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When Sabers Rattle Too Loudly

The unexpected admission last Wednesday that North Korea has been operating a secret nuclear weapons program since the mid-1990s, in

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Living It Up, Yale Style

As nagging mothers will do, my mom came up with a catchphrase my senior year in high school to tempt

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Pythons and Rats

The signs of senior year are everywhere. Campus is a sea of young faces I don’t recognize, the first-years look

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How the Weak Wage War

If you have ever wondered what would happen if the European Union ran the world anti-terror campaign, take a look

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Partisanship, Harvard-Style

Angered by a prolonged spell of spineless—or, often, non-existent—opposition in Washington to the Bush Administration, Frank Rich ’71 thundered in

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Veritas Has No 'Z'

It is reasonably common knowledge that Harvard admits a certain number of students each year on the condition that they

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Books and Barbarians

The ad hominem attack is the easy fall back for anyone who disagrees with the Bush administration. For cartoonists, the

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Being Don Quixote

The fall my father turned 20, he crisscrossed southern Ohio in his Volkswagen trying to save the world. It was

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Nicer Not Necessary

A conversation I overheard in Porter Square two weeks ago has made me remember how I felt seeing homeless people

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Why a Rat Had To Die

When the last pig-tailed bandicoot disappeared from Australia 80 years ago, there were no mourners. Such a muted reaction is

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Tobacco Wins When It Loses

A California jury’s decision on Friday that Phillip Morris must pay $28 billion in punitive damages to a lifetime smoker

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Improving, One Rank At A Time

Last month, U.S. News & World Report released its 2003 edition of “America’s Best Colleges.” Harvard placed second to Princeton

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