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  • Jürgen Habermas Is Dead

    Jürgen Habermas Is Dead

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    Jürgen Habermas, born June 19, 1929, in a wood-frame house near the Vorort of Düsseldorf, passed away last Tuesday at the age of 78.

  • The Gender Revolution

    The Gender Revolution

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    Jean/Gene Beebe ’10 was taken aback when I contacted her. “I’m curious as to how you found out about me, and why you want to interview me,” she writes in an e-mail, adding in parentheses: “(Unfortunately, in this socially conservative climate, I get quite a bit of faux interest from those interested in mocking me.)”…

  • The Chabad Affair: Part Two

    The Chabad Affair: Part Two

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    Given the impenetrable penumbra of mystery surrounding the secret letter from the Center for Jewish Life (CJL) to President Shirley Tilghman about the Chabad Affair, one may question the current adequacy of the support for Jewish life at Princeton. Though Princeton may overtly seem a welcoming environment for Jews, recent events suggest otherwise: Lisa Glukhovsky…

  • Non-Religious Discussion?

    Non-Religious Discussion?

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    When a movement exclusive in membership, religious in orientation, and all comprehensive in its ideological scope attempts to gain the sanction of a secular university community committed to diversity and inclusion, it obviously puts itself into a paradoxical situation. This was the situation the founders of Princeton’s Anscombe Society, a group “dedicated to affirming the…

  • Micawber’s Reaches THE END

    Micawber’s Reaches THE END

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    Just walk in Micawber Books, now as it phases out its inventory in preparation to close its doors in March, and you will undoubtedly bear witness to a sad scene, not quite of mourning but of definite melancholy, downtrodden emotion. Yes, of course, the friendly staff is still smiling; Bobbie Fishman, a long-time employee, interestedly…

  • RIP Augusto Pinochet

    RIP Augusto Pinochet

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    Frankly, I hope he rots in hell. There is no figure more odious than the man who supplants democracy with tyranny. Augusto Pinochet sailed into power on the crest of the military coup d�etat that threw democratic President Salvador Allende out of office and into a coffin.

  • The Ravings of a Pinochet Junkie

    The Ravings of a Pinochet Junkie

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    It’s fairly rare, in this day and age, and on the continental landmass of the Americas, to be present at the official End Of An Era: the death of an ex-tyrant. Especially when, as was the case with former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, that death occurs at 2:15 PM on a sweltering, feet-dragging dog…

  • Richard Nixon’s Legacy Lives On!

    Richard Nixon’s Legacy Lives On!

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    I had never seen ping pong look so good. In fact, before this Saturday, when the Princeton Table Tennis Club played Peking University’s team, I had never even seen competitive ping pong played before – excepting a few scenes in Forrest Gump, when Gump ‘played’ the Chinese national team as a part of the Ping…

  • Thirteen Ways of Looking at an Election

    Thirteen Ways of Looking at an Election

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    I love Woody Woo students. Their affability. Their political charm. Their electoral obsession. But I know I’m not – nor ever will be – one of them. I’m a prideful English major, content with my metrics, and my ever-mounting stacks of books. There are overlaps, assuredly, between the literary and the political approaches to life…

  • Salem Still Hunting Witches

    Salem Still Hunting Witches

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    SALEM, MA – The streets of the world’s Halloween capital were filled yet again with Wal-Mart-rayon clad witches in short robes and be-pentacled Wiccans alike this October 31st, hoping for a good time. Neither group really got the celebration it was expecting. Judging by the police presence in the town’s historic district, one would think…

  • Of Turks and Laurels in Stockholm

    Of Turks and Laurels in Stockholm

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    Perhaps to the slight disappointment of the Princetonians hoping to make the University home to a second Nobel Laureate in literature, this year’s Nobel Prize in literature went to Orhan Pamuk, one of Turkey’s most critically acclaimed novelists. The Swedish Academy commented when announcing the award that the 54-year-old author introduced readers to “new symbols…

  • Guinness, Galway and Gaelic

    Guinness, Galway and Gaelic

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    Noticed a sudden hankering for Guinness? Find yourself prone to a spontaneous jig? It’s not surprising – you can’t seem to escape the influence of the Irish on campus these days. It’s all thanks to Leonard Milberg ’53, who donated an enormous collection of Irish theater to the University in honor of Paul Muldoon. The…