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'Passion's innovations lack authenticity

If you were at the panel on "The Passion of the Christ" the other day, you might have noticed that I was the guy in the back who asked Professor Cornel West the question along these lines, "Do you think it is dangerous for this movie to be marketed as nonfiction when, in fact, it is simply one interpretation of the story?"I would like here to explain the impetus behind my question.

OPINION | 03/03/2004

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Bon voyage?

Many students who manage to weave study abroad into their time at Princeton look back on this decision as one of their wisest while at college.

OPINION | 03/03/2004

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Searching for inspiration

It's said that the only things sure in life are death and taxes. Not having experienced the afterlife or the IRS, I can't yet attest to this statement's truth.Instead, I believe in a different pessimistic eventuality: When I have most need of a brilliant idea is when my mind remains most blank.

OPINION | 03/02/2004

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Vegeterians should stop in-fighting

One rarely dwells too long upon topics like animal cruelty, inefficient food production, and unsanitary processing conditions, but these are just a few of the considerations that drive many people to a lifetime of vegetarianism.For a vegetarian though, a diet without steak and chicken wings usually comprises less than half the problem.

OPINION | 03/02/2004

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A step too far

An intimidating lecture hall, like those in McCosh or McDonnell, can easily overwhelm a wide-eyed visitor with its sheer size and number of students.

OPINION | 03/01/2004

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Exit strategies

You've been there. It's the hour-long precept, the ninety-minute lecture, the three-hour seminar, the indefinitely-long conversation where you realize, five minutes in, that hell really is other people.

OPINION | 03/01/2004

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Passionate reflections

The artistic responses to the gospel accounts of the Passion of Jesus Christ, especially that in Matthew, include such works of transcendent genius as the poetic "Stabat Mater," Grnewald's painted "Crucifixion," Michelangelo's sculpted Piet

OPINION | 02/29/2004

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50 years later, Brown remains unfulfilled

Could you imagine the excitement of black communities across America on May 17, 1954, the day the Supreme Court handed down the Brown decision and declared the doctrine of "separate but equal" unconstitutional?Imagine the euphoria of black parents across the country who dreamed of something better for their children and insisted that education was the best way to improve their circumstances.Imagine their joy as they realized that their children would no longer have to attend dilapidated schools and read from second and third hand books.Imagine the excitement of those whose lives had been defined by the humiliating insistence that they were less than, and having this view structured in the very order of things.Imagine their joy at the possibility that the Court's decision constituted a death sentence to Jim and Jane Crow.But we know what followed.

OPINION | 02/26/2004

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What apathy?

Now that my candidate of choice has dropped out of the presidential race, I feel compelled to respond to the 'Prince's condemnation of Princeton students' political apathy ("Princeton Politics," Feb.

OPINION | 02/26/2004

The Daily Princetonian

Attention seniors

Seniors, is this all you need to know about young alumni trustee candidates before voting?* *Last Wednesday, young alumni trustee candidates voted against even allowing candidate statements available to first-round voters.

OPINION | 02/25/2004