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...need to return to sectarian demagoguery as the path back to power. To be sure, being part of the governing coalition had a restraining effect on the more extremist elements in the Hindu nationalist movement over the past six years, who may now feel a greater freedom to pursue communal confrontations over issues such as Ayodhya, where Hindu nationalists a decade ago destroyed a mosque, and have tried ever since to build a Hindu temple atop its remains. And also in Gujarat, scene of protracted communal bloodshed two years ago. With Congress in power and the BJP looking to make...
Cantor points to the naturally communal spirit of a cappella as the reason for its curiously high popularity in colleges. “A cappella is a social thing—there are a lot of people onstage, and all of them can draw an audience,” says Cantor. “Singer songwriters are more of a lone presence, which may not be as easy to immediately enjoy as a cappella...
It’s fairly obvious that the feeling of community that students report as so important in “making the most” of college has something to do with, quite literally, having a communal space to call one?...
Tina Fey made me steal a book. I told her that, fittingly, I had lied to Al Franken, the author of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, about reading it. So Fey grabbed the book from the communal library of her swanky Manhattan apartment building and made me steal it. I say made because Tina Fey is the Farrah Fawcett of the world of geek boys, and in 1977, Farrah could have wiped out Barnes & Noble if she had wanted to. But I also say me because Fey would never do something like that herself. "The girls...
...actually finishes. It does not grind to a sudden and well-defined halt, but instead peters out, as variable exam schedules drain dorms in a gradual trickle. It’s a case of now you see it, now you don’t, completely different from the coordinated communal closure of the high school year and endowing the rites of spring time socializing with an added sense of urgency...