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...should all be deliberately conscious of the fact that our actions have an effect on those around us and a cumulative effect on our community. The council’s 2001 survey also found that noise from 1 a.m. parties made it difficult for 12 percent of students to sleep—and that 9 percent of students were opposed to an extension of hours. This is a small minority of the campus and very few entryways regularly host parties. Still, membership in a minority group does not justify a decrease in individual rights or respect. As the new party...
...predecessors. So argues Donald Keene, the distinguished American scholar and leading interpreter of Japanese civilization, in his elegant, incisive new biography, Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan. The arts in 15th century Japan were (with a few exceptions such as Noh drama) self-conscious imitations of the cultural achievements of China. Keene painstakingly builds the case that much of the aesthetic sensibility that modern Japanese people now think of as being especially Japanese can be traced to the exquisite refinement of taste that evolved under Yoshimasa...
SINGAPORE Style-conscious gents are descending on the Ermenegildo Zegna Sport outlet in the heart of shopping haven Orchard Road for the Italian label's popular Portofino sailing shoes ($317), above...
...fewer sheets to do the job, which easily makes up for the fact that it offers only 400 sheets per roll. And the University wouldn’t necessarily have to go 100 percent Cottonelle—Cabot House offers a good middle ground for the cost and conservation conscious: its superintendent offers both types of paper so that students have a choice...
Even when an election is not months away, such probes mean different things to different people. To Democrats, a blue-ribbon panel would discover whether Administration hard-liners shopped around for intelligence that fit their war aims. "The Administration made a conscious decision to cherry-pick the intelligence and to make the most aggressive case possible ... based upon its belief that [ousting Saddam] was the right thing to do," says Indiana's Evan Bayh, a Democrat on the Intelligence Committee. "The caveats were in there from the beginning, but they became increasingly less emphasized and then finally were dropped altogether...