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...Well, if I’m struggling I’m doing something right” and recognized a tone totally contrary to everything I thought I was. To the extent that I had inherited a culture, nowhere in my very hybrid Catholic-Jewish Asian-Spanish-Eastern European parentage was there even a hint of the kind of Puritanism that values “sticking it out” above all else. More importantly, the sentiment had never guided my decisions in high school, where I wasn’t ashamed to take steps to make life easier for myself...
...painfully obvious. No one thinks they work just to work, because no one wants to believe they’ve become the embodiment of the Protestant Ethic or the Spirit of Capitalism. But the truth is that even the most laid-back socialist-leaning Catholic-Jewish Asian-Spanish-Eastern Europeans among us have internalized some of those principles. Until I gave them up last summer, that...
...used as communist pawns, but because the University recognizes the inherent value in understanding “non-Western” cultures and histories. The class of 2008’s graduates had the option to concentrate in African and African American studies, East Asian languages and civilizations, Near Eastern languages and civilizations, and Sanskrit and Indian studies. But what is still missing from Harvard’s academic offerings is the opportunity to study these fields as integrated pieces of history, literature, and social theory. While it is possible to be a history major and devote much of your...
...chair of the Near Eastern languages and civilizations department, Harris grew up in what he called a “religiously eclectic” Jewish family in New York. He earned a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D., both in religion, from Columbia...
...configuration uses small plug-in units deployed primarily in Square establishments, like Eastern Mountain Sports and Grafton Street, to amplify the signal from central units...