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...SparkNotes will do the trick on the rest of the syllabus. As anyone who’s not a neophyte to the Core, true academic challenge comes only by taking cross-listed departmental courses. Don’t be silly—skip them. But for the intellectually challenging amongst you, English 177, “Art and Thought in the Cold War,” is not to be missed. Renaissance man Louis Menand’s command of the subject matter allows him to skillfully blend the historical and literary disciplines throughout his lectures, constructing a class that...
...help prevent conflict. At the same time, says Baldo, "you feel that China wants to be seen in a positive light. They play a very delicate balancing act." Jiang Wenran, Director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta, Canada, says Sudan is the focus of debate amongst China's foreign-policy élite. Progressives argue that Beijing should cut its ties with Khartoum, both because it's the right thing to do and because China's oil interests in Sudan are not worth the cost of the country being labeled a genocide abetter. But conservatives, says Jiang, "think...
...know our professor, Dr. Karin B. Michels of the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Michels was obliging enough to join the students for dinner in Annenberg after each seminar, where she could talk to us individually, granting us attention rarely given freshmen by professors. Feeling comfortable and confident amongst both my peers and professor, I was able to speak up in class without temerity...
...years I have spent listening to Iranian politicians fight viciously amongst themselves, I can report that a lack of candor is not a problem here. It is a mistake to elevate such social manners as taarof to an essential characteristic of political behavior. If an Iranian politician hedges a question, replies ambiguously, or reverses an earlier position, there are usually concrete reasons involved, and it would be more instructive to focus on those than a slippery Persian tendency toward dissembling...
...memories of the early part of this summer: Don Saúl, Don Celso, and Don Rubén. Each of them owns a small plot of land in the rural Pacific town of El Pumpo, where cattle grazing was profitable until the same plots of land became divided amongst increasing numbers of children. The next generation of Guatemalans in this town only has three viable ways to live: working in Guatemala City under dreadful conditions, taking the long, uncertain trip to the United States, or getting involved in the perilous drug trade. How’s that for opportunity? Good...