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...Given the ugly spate of racist incidents that have marred professional play in Spain, Italy, France and elsewhere in Europe over the past year, it isn't surprising the first explanations of what prompted Zidane's violent reaction painted Materazzi as a foul-mouthed bigot. The English daily The Guardian led things off with a translation of an audio feed picked up by a TV camera, and depicted an escalating exchange in Italian ending with Materazzi calling Zidane a "(expletive) Muslim, dirty terrorist". Other media analyses relied on lip-readers scrutinizing video images, and came away with interpretations ranging from...
...English 90qh. “Exotica in Renaissance Drama...
...away the Playboys and rest assured that the English department hasn’t left Harvard undergraduates high and dry now that newly-departed Cowles Associate Professor of English Lynn M. Festa’s “Sex and Sensibility in the Enlightenment” is just a relic in the CUE Guide archives. English Lecturer Marie K. Rutkoski’s fall semester class on Renaissance dramas will include works by Freud and Foucault, English class staple reads. According to the course description, “the culturally foreign, madness, and the supernatural” will...
...humanities and general education courses, but take them now because they are only “transitionary” and won’t be around forever. At the top of the list is the tag team of Cogan University Professor Stephen J. Greenblatt and Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, who will co-teach Humanities 10, “An Introductory Humanities Colloquium.” The reading list provided in the course catalog makes this class sound like a 90-minute version of a moral reasoning class, but those who want to concentrate...
...were overwhelming, but there is hope for the masses of the subcontinent. It goes to show what can be accomplished by millions of people with a work ethic, an appreciation for education, a culture of thrift and family, and a recognition of the value of being able to speak English well in the global marketplace. PAUL H. GORE Oakland...