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...fitting that Harvard was the site of enlightenment, serving as Bodhi Tree for this modern-day Buddha. Harvard is probably one of the most left-brained places in the world. Nirvana and self-cessation do not blend well with the hypercompetitive, ego-driven culture that is cultivated at this bastion of the protestant ethic and spirit of capitalism. Before her stroke, Taylor was very much a part of the Harvard ethos, a neuroscientist who, according to her colleagues, displayed none of the mysticism that would characterize her future. But the tiniest of biological accidents changed...
...party lost the London mayoralty and suffered its most disastrous municipal election result across the country in decades. But yesterday it got even worse. The resurgent Conservatives stomped to victory in a by-election in Crewe, a working-class town in northwestern England that has been an unsinkable Labour bastion since World War II. The sheer size of the victory - 17.6% of the electorate switched from Labour to Tory since the last election in 2005 - was sufficient cause to pass over the policy missteps and campaign gaffes that contributed to the debacle and go straight to the jugular concern...
...Charles.” There is something subversive in the name that touches the inner rebel in me—the idea that my school, however idealized by U.S. News & World Reports and The New York Times, is considered by some (or many) Americans to be a bastion of elitist, pinko revolutionaries...
...Seducing the Boys Club: Uncensored Tactics from a Woman at the Top (Ballantine), the audacious book by Nina DiSesa, chairman of the flagship New York City office of the advertising agency McCann Erickson. She lets out a war whoop, intent on "breaking down the barriers of that impenetrable bastion of male arrogance and supremacy: 'the boys club.'" One weapon, she confides, is "the Art of S&M (Seduction and Manipulation)." One of DiSesa's guiding principles, however, is, "Don't confuse seduction with sex (one is a brilliant business tactic; the other isn't)." Her other rules could be just...
...words of poet William Butler Yeats, "all changed, changed utterly." His resignation as Taoiseach (Prime Minister) underlines the remarkable transformation over which he presided in his decade of leadership: Ireland has grown from an economic backwater to an E.U. success story, and has moved from a bastion of social conservatism to a more open and diverse society. But the same changes may also have ultimately cost Ahern, as Ireland also moved from a deferential political culture to one that asks hard questions of its leaders...