Word: continentality
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If you think you know a continent when you see one, think again. Asia's ambiguous geographical and cultural divisions are immediately apparent in the index of The Asia Book-the latest pictorial tome from Lonely Planet. Transcontinental nations like Turkey and Russia (whose eastern extremities stretch to the same...
Like its predecessors The Cities Book and The Travel Book, this volume is stuffed with photographs-perhaps overly so. Images fight for attention on some layouts. There are also occasional lapses into Orientalist cliché-think saffron-robed monks, misty sunrises and cute, ethnically garbed children. But you'll find...
Over lunch in Mather Dining Hall, Alison E. Cohen ’07 repeatedly greets friends with a warm smile, raising her eyebrows in acknowledgement. It is a gesture that perhaps best captures Cohen’s personality. Even a simple salutation goes a long way, she later explains, recounting...
A group of students marches through Harvard Yard. Holding placards, they walk from the steps of Widener Library to an administrative building where University officials are discussing investments in Africa. A humanitarian crisis is occurring on the continent, and a group that advises the Harvard Corporation must decide whether divesting...
Yet immigration opponents in each of these periods had their reasons as well as their prejudices. In the late 1790s France and Ireland suffered revolutionary turmoil. French diplomats had interfered in U.S. politics. It seemed possible, as Otis warned, that some immigrants intended "to come here with a view to...