Word: escapees
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“This looks like Daedalus on a budget,” an unimpressed Angie J. Thebaud ’04 said. While the word “budget” may be unsavory to some, it is music to the ears of others—namely diners at...
After four years at Harvard, students can graduate into the company of educated men and women without knowledge of Aristotle, Shakespeare, the Charter of the United Nations or even the Constitution of the United States. The present structure of Harvard’s Core Curriculum allows students to escape all...
Besides, in helping other countries escape poverty, we may be in for a pleasant surprise. Although the connection between growth and democracy can be tenuous in the short run, in the long run, as Samuel Hungtington has pointed out, “high levels of economic wealth are associated with...
Rising levels of education among the formerly impoverished, combined with rising levels of optimism about their future, should decrease the appeal of extremist ideologies antithetical to democracy. By hastening the demise of the regimes that stand in the way of trade and growth, we would be doing ourselves a favor...
In “Eating Jain,” for instance, Mahvi yearns to escape to New York with Bobby, his American boyfriend, but a powerful sense of duty compels him to stay in India and go through with an arranged marriage. Although Bobby loves Mahvi for his Jain spirituality...