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...utilizing the “sleeping embryo” theory, the concept that the female gestation period can range anywhere from six months to five years—an idea contained in the Hadiths, or sayings of the prophet Muhammad—women accused of adultery and facing death by stoning can be defended within the context of Sharia, said Ibrahim, the Hauser Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute...
There is only one Game tradition that I will truly miss if it is absent this weekend: the MIT hack. The concept has always amused me—MIT nerds feeling left out by the ceremony of self-importance and athletic exclusivity upriver, and resolving to crash the party. The pranks have been elaborate and crazy interruptions to football games that have not, typically, been of the highest quality—and I’ve appreciated them since I was too young to stay awake through all four quarters of play...
...explorers encountered them well over two centuries ago. They live on a day-by-day basis, catching only what food they need and leaving little behind by way of art, jewelry, possessions, or material goods. Nevertheless, Everett describes them as both “firmly committed to the pragmatic concept of utility” and some of the happiest people he has ever known—unsettlingly echoing the colonialist stereotype of the ignorant but blissful savage.Most of the first part of “Don’t Sleep” is concerned with recounting the author?...
...women, cartoons, dancers and—what else—more bombs, to the near-frenzied sounds of Mr. Charles’ raucous, sexually charged frenzy of a performance. Many credit the piece, as well as others by this film’s director (Bruce Connor), with influencing the concept of the contemporary music video. To assert that the man behind “Cosmic Ray” was interested in searching for new means of delivering popular music into the home, however, is reductive to say the least.Last month, the Harvard Film Archive presented a series of films from...
...retain an importance of their own. After all, tomorrow is a new day, a day to contemplate them, to think: “My thumb lifted itself again as if of its own volition, and I put away the camera. ” While principally taking aim at the concept of the biography, Kehlmann also engages with modern notions of celebrity. In one particularly memorable moment, Zollner takes Kaminski to a friend’s art exhibit in the city with the intention of garnering advance publicity for the biography he is penning. But in introducing those who frequent these...