Word: asianness
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...those moments, this place becomes more than bricks and coursepacks but rather something that is only tangible in the shared experiences. The Asian tourists posing for pictures in front of your entryway door or snapping pictures of your flabby pale self running Primal Scream, the professor who is interviewed on TV as an expert although you fell asleep in half his lectures, or the President of Mongolia’s security detail pushes you aside in the yard so the President’s unwashed hand can touch John’s unwashed bronze shoe. From the shared experiences like...
...impact on international scholarship, as well as on the Florentine scholarly world.” The resources at I Tatti continue to attract broad scholarly interest. In accordance with Berenson’s wishes, his collection of about 120 priceless works of Renaissance art, as well as a few Asian and Islamic masterpieces, remains at the villa. The villa also houses the Berenson archive, with letters to and from the Berensons’ 1,400 correspondents, 6,000 letters between Bernard and Mary, their diaries, manuscripts, and other personal records.It is the library, though, which was most beloved by Berenson...
They say that love finds you in unexpected places. For Ritambhara Kumar ’09, that place was the catwalk of the South-Asian fashion show “Andaaz” in May 2007. Her future husband, Neil K. Aggarwal, had the “dubious distinction” of being the only graduate student in the show, she said. Kumar, at the time a sophomore, made the first move by e-mailing Aggarwal, a graduate student in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, after the show. The two had a four-hour first date at Café Pamplona...
...powerful military is thought to have no interest in ever bargaining away the country's nuclear deterrent - the ultimate guarantee of the regime's security - and Jong Un's new posting on the Defense Commission may be a way for him to be educated on this issue, one East Asian intelligence analyst says...
...attaché in the Tokyo embassy. Barely 30, he played an outsize role in key trade negotiations for someone so young. By the late '90s, he was in Washington, helping both Lawrence Summers, now President Obama's chief economic adviser, and then Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin deal with the Asian financial crisis that flattened economies in the region...