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...senior tutor and a petition to the Ad Board. Holden’s classes include: “Poets as Critics” (Lit 133), “Philosophy of Mathematics” (Phil 148), Trees (Science B-40), a conference course entitled “The 20th-Century Post-Realist Novel in Eastern Europe” (Comp Lit 164), the sophomore Literature tutorial (Lit 97b), a proseminar entitled “Husserl and Heidigger” (Phil. 136), and “Intensive German” (German Bab), which is the equivalent of two courses...
...Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has said the U.S. could, if necessary, fight a war in two theaters. That's an inadequate justification for current U.S. policy. (The Secretary also fails to mention the horrible potential cost of a second Asian front. During the latter half of the 20th century the U.S. lost more lives in combat in Asia than in wars in the rest of the world combined.) The current approach of treating Kim Jong Il as less dangerous than Saddam Hussein and the North Korean problem as little more than a troubling sideshow is what opens...
...paintings, decorative objects, figurines, photographs and sketches not only document the colonial era (17th-20th centuries) in India, but also demonstrate the cross-pollination between British and Indian artistic traditions—an artistic and cultural exchange that led artists from both countries to redefine their stylistic conventions...
...artist with influences as diverse as Prince, the Beatles and the early 20th century blues, it’s no surprise that he made his Boston area debut at the House of Blues. ChesnuTT had the lights switched on to illuminate the portraits of the blues musicians adorning the ceiling. That same humility had led him to record his first video, “Look Good in Leather,” for a mere...
...years to come. There should be no illusions about the difficulty of Mesopotamian nation building. It has been attempted on this same ground many times before, by many other superpowers, and none--none--has ever succeeded. The last to try was England. Winston Churchill, a superhawk hero of the 20th century, ran the occupation, saw the futility of it and favored retreat. "We are paying 8 millions a year," he wrote his Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, in 1922, "for the privilege of living on an ungrateful volcano...