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The human malady we must all try to understand

The human malady we must all try to understand

The more I see of humanity, the more I am convinced that something is terribly wrong. Dostoevsky wrote "I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition among men." This begs the question: what is the normal condition among men?

OPINION | 11/18/2004

On language, Princeton style: The history of 'Beirut'

The capital of Lebanon is the second thing that comes to mind when the college student hears "Beirut." Images of beer-soaked chins and recollections of that unmistakable ping-pong tang first flood our memories.

OPINION | 11/18/2004

Life gains meaning when we act with altruism

Regarding 'Impact doesn't have to be global to be big' (Katherine Reilly, Nov. 17):I graduated in 1971, one of the "baby boomers" who was not going to get caught in the "sucess trap," who was never going to get old and who was going to change the world for the better.

OPINION | 11/18/2004

Equal punishment

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court spared millions of legal immigrants from the threat of deportation for a drunk driving accident.Josue Leocal, a Haitian immigrant living in Miami, confessed to inflicting serious bodily injury on two people while driving under the influence in 2000.

OPINION | 11/17/2004

Premature babies can live full lives

Regarding 'Bioethics class visits neonatal facility' (Nov. 15):In 1914, my grandmother gave birth to two little girls, my Aunt Ernesting and Aunt Christine.

OPINION | 11/17/2004

Romance may not be what we think

Not so very long ago, the idea of "Romance" centered upon the basics: your age when you were betrothed, your rank in the family business and how much wrist you got to see while dancing in parallel lines.

OPINION | 11/17/2004

Impact doesn't have to be global to be big

My father died on Saturday, Nov. 6, in Philadelphia, a city in which he did not live. He was 52 years old.I could write many more than seven hundred words about my father.

OPINION | 11/16/2004

Letters to the Editor

Differences between Singer and Hiatt exaggerated Regarding 'Bioethics class visits neonatal facility' (Nov.

OPINION | 11/16/2004

Yasser Arafat is no Moses

How ironic that the authors of a recent editorial wrote of Palestinian olive trees being uprooted by Israelis.

OPINION | 11/16/2004

The midwest is best

Election night a few weeks ago was an exciting time to be from Ohio. The country's fate was left to the Buckeye State, and while I regret the way my fellow Ohioans voted, I still enjoyed the national attention we received.

OPINION | 11/15/2004

Quantity over quality

Some time last year, a friend of mine said something that really struck a chord. In the middle of a discussion on the tendencies of Princetonians, my companion summarized, "Princeton students are very good at working but not very good at thinking."I have had some time to process these words and have realized that the more I ponder them, the more revealing they seem to be in describing how we conduct our education here at Princeton.Critiquing the lack of intellectualism at Princeton is certainly nothing new.

OPINION | 11/15/2004

Partisanship, not science supports Tilghman's stance

Regarding 'Tilghman to address stem cell symposium' (April 22):President Tilghman says, "We have to weigh the rights and privileges of a ball of cells versus those of a child with juvenile diabetes and judge between them.

OPINION | 11/15/2004

Faith is not a dirty word

Two weeks ago, on the eve of the election, I told you that I knew who would win the election and why ? without, of course, telling you either thing.

OPINION | 11/14/2004

Arafat's legacy has been unfairly tarnished

While Yasser Arafat languished for the last three years of his life as a virtual prisoner in his crumbling Ramallah compound, the Israeli government and the American punditocracy embarked upon a sustained smear campaign to portray him as a rejectionist and an irrelevant partner in the peace process.

OPINION | 11/14/2004

Ivy post-season football ban doesn't make sense

Regarding 'Contention over Ivy football rules' (Nov. 11):Sometimes it seems as though I am speaking to a grammar school class, rather than the presidents of the Ivies.

OPINION | 11/14/2004

Small depts. do offer choices

Emily Stolzenberg (A look at major constraints, Nov. 11) contrasts the attractively "broad scope" of big departments such as English and history with the "narrower scope" of what she calls "language majors." This characterization overlooks the fact that the latter already offer a great degree of interdisciplinarity and flexibility.The curriculum in French and Italian, for example, incorporates not just one or two, but up to three "cognate" courses chosen from other humanities or social sciences departments.

OPINION | 11/11/2004

A visit to Harvard brings a reminder of a Princetonian virtue

It's Saturday night, 1:30 a.m. Instead of chugging the rest of my plastic cup filled with Beast, popping my collar and heading to the dance floor, I'm dead sober in what looks like a miniature eating club watching the last few people file out.

OPINION | 11/11/2004

Election shows Democrats need to speak the language of morality

During our own Adlai Stevenson '21's 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to him, "You have the vote of every thinking person!" Stevenson replied with typical wit: "That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!" He went on to lose to Dwight Eisenhower in a landslide.Stevenson would have felt right at home in my dinner table conversions.

OPINION | 11/11/2004

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