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...only Arab music. Someone has plastered posters advertising a concert by the Moroccan musician Daoudi. But this isn't Morocco. This is France. And we're not in the suburbs, where many of France's marginalized North African communities live. The Goutte d'Or quarter is right in the 18th arrondissement of the capital. "This neighborhood, you wouldn't even know you are in Paris," says Naresh Patel, a 44-year-old Hindu Indian who runs a stall under the elevated metro tracks. "Here people preserve their North African Muslim heritage at the expense of being French. France has done...
...used to be that an education in the liberal arts and sciences was devoted primarily to the development of an individual’s character. In some form or another, this was the central idea behind both the classical Greek notion of paideia and the 18th and 19th century German idea of Bildung. Getting a general education, on these models, was a matter of becoming sensitive to the demands of the “good life”—of learning what was admirable to aspire to and of developing the character to pursue such aspirations. Since then...
...script. In one fast-paced exchange of wits, Kapusta, Onstad, Gerlach, Nip, and Matthew B. Bird ’10 (who plays the gardener Antonio) skillfully express the difficulty of deceiving each other on the spot, eliciting laughter from the audience. Instead of setting the opera in the 18th century, director Vincent chose to set this production of “Figaro” in the 1960s. Her choice adds a layer of complexity to the work by drawing a parallel between the women’s liberation movements and the importance that the female characters have in cooking...
PRINCETON, N.J.—Once again, Harvard traveled to Princeton hoping to take down its Ivy rival. And once again, for the 18th time in a row, Jadwin Gym’s Tigers chewed up the Crimson’s hopes and spit them out whole. Harvard (10-11, 3-4 Ivy), riding a stunning 33-point performance from sophomore Drew Housman, pushed a depleted Princeton squad to its limit, but ultimately fell in a 74-68 double overtime thriller Friday night. The Crimson has not won at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym since 1989. Friday night proved...
PRINCETON—Once again, Harvard traveled to Princeton hoping to take down its Ivy rival. And once again, for the 18th time in a row, Jadwin Gym’s Tigers chewed up the Crimson’s hopes and spit them out whole. Harvard (10-11, 3-4 Ivy), riding a stunning 33-point performance from sophomore Drew Housman, pushed a depleted Princeton squad to its limit, but ultimately fell in a 74-68 double overtime thriller Friday night. The Crimson has not won at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym since 1989. Friday night proved just another...