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...American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, writing in 1856, captured a persistent truth about the Englishman: "Born in a harsh and wet climate, which keeps him indoors whenever he is at rest ... he dearly loves his house." Little has changed since then; the English still lavish attention on their homes. Any whiff of news about the U.K.'s housing market is enough to make the front pages. When British TV channels aren't airing advice on buying or selling homes, they're offering lessons on how to do them up. "Domesticity," Emerson noted, "is the taproot which enables the nation...
With over 200 people filling the Emerson Hall lecture hall before him, a debate-mongering Harvard Law School (HLS) professor set to speak after him, and members of a pro-Israel student group leafletting his event outside, the renowned MIT linguist and noted anti-Zionist Noam Chomsky delivered a remarkably soft 45-minute chronology of Israeli-Palestinian history yesterday. Chomsky walked audience members through a careful timeline of Israeli actions against the Palestinians, issuing academic criticisms of the United States and various scholars for their attitudes on the subject. About half of the event’s attendees had filtered...
...former interracial fashion model who is also a Men’s Fitness magazine relationship columnist teamed up with a Harvard Medical School psychiatrist to discuss “Race and Female Body Image” in Emerson Hall last night. The event, sponsored by the Harvard Foundation and the Harvard College Women’s Center, featured author Sil Lai Abrams, of mixed Chinese and African ethnicity, and Anne E. Becker ’83, director of Mass. General Hospital’s Eating Disorders Program, along with a panel of Harvard students. The speakers discussed issues ranging from...
...China in 2002, Hyo-Sung Choi spoke by telephone to his mother three years after he thought she had died. “I cried for half an hour,” said Choi, who relayed his experiences fleeing from North Korea to members of the Harvard community in Emerson Hall yesterday, at an event that was part of the Harvard Undergraduates for Human Rights in North Korea’s (HRiNK) Awareness Week. Unfortunately, Choi’s moment of joy passed quickly. Choi had been held against his will by a man who had convinced him to travel...
...while Harvard was responsible for pro-slavery sentiments, a number of Harvard graduates were outspoken abolitionists, among them Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Theodore Parker...