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...history?from partition, to three wars between India and Pakistan, the long crisis over Kashmir, and a nuclear arms race. Political parties such as the BJP have exploited those tensions to gain votes, further widening the rift. In Bombay, ironically, religious tensions are eased by the sheer impracticality of communal segregation in a city of 16 million. As survivors of last week's attacks pointed out, the train carriages may separate men from women (every train has a carriage designated for women on their own) but there are no carriages marked "Hindus only." Yet an attack like this...
...next show, Ian Brown - at the Carling Academy Islington. Of course, beer and rock music have been acquainted for a while. But at a time when technology is forcing the recorded sector to rethink the fundamentals of how music is produced, consumed and paid for, increasingly it's the communal experience of a concert that consumers are willing to splurge on - and companies want to be associated with. As lead sponsors of the Academy Music Group's eight medium-sized venues across Britain and a giant duel-sited rock festival, Carling is in the right place at the right time...
...21st century tribal gathering that fills a gap left by other social institutions. They also share a recognition that the ability of music to bring different people together is a source of its primal power. But in a digitally fractured, politically ruptured world, the real appeal of communal grooving may be as simple as the linguistic translation of Bonnaroo: a Creole word for "good times...
...this kind of thing with a team,” says Menand, who will lecture on modern texts in the new humanities course while Greenblatt covers early modern texts.Group-taught science courses are usually divided topically, however.Senior Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular Biology Robert A. Lue says the communal efforts of teaching science parallel those of researching it. “Science today is really an effort of...a community of scientists from multiple fields,” he says of the mission behind Life Sciences 1a. While Amy T. Wu ’09 says her 1b course could...
...assess the effects of the universal keycard access initiative. “If there is significant abuse of it, we would reevaluate it in some sense,” Sarafa said. The initiative follows College renovations to Yard basements, transforming what used to be student office space into communal social areas. Universal keycard access will allow student groups with upperclassman members to use freshman common rooms and social spaces, he added.—Staff writer Ying Wang can be reached at yingwang@fas.harvard.edu...