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...word means "village people," but that prosaic definition masks the discomfort still felt by a minority that had been branded an untouchable class during Japan's samurai era of the 17th century. In those days, the burakumin were social outcasts: the butchers, tanners and waste-handlers who fell to the bottom of the heap in a five-tier caste system. The archaic social structure went the way of the shoguns during Japan's Meiji transformation in the late 19th century. Yet the burakumin still exist on the fringes of this mostly homogenous society, and fight the age-old battles...
PSLM member Aaron D. Bartley says he began to recognize the Corporation's unparalleled decision-making ability after examining a University charter dating back to the 17th century...
...course, bondage as recreation and even an art form isn't new in Asia. Nawashibari, erotic rope binding, has its origins in 17th century feudal Japan, when samurai's servants took great care weaving hemp cords in intricate patterns to restrain, transport and torture suspected criminals. Today the art is practiced for aesthetic reasons: some people admire the designs that binds leave on the skin...
...Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL) presented Moses with the award at the keynote event of its 17th annual conference, which brought more than 1,500 college students to Cambridge from across the country, India, Bulgaria and the United Kingdom...
...late 17th century in order to even get a degree, students would have to give a public disquisition open to any alumni member to critique," Gomes says...