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Administrators argue that the expansion of engineering is especially important today, as technology becomes more important in everyday lives...
Fanfare/Ponent Mon's two latest releases are by Japanese artists, but couldn't be further from the kind of manga most people get exposed to. Jiro Taniguchi's "The Walking Man" ($17; 155 pages) perfectly embodies the precepts of nouvelle manga, taking the low-key activities of everyday life and depicting them in the highly detailed drawing style more commonly associated with European comix. Each of the book's 18 chapters depicts a nameless salaryman on a different stroll through the city and countryside. The first chapter sets the formula for ones following. The man pops out to take...
...Friends are made and lost in the course of a ‘Halo’ game,” said Craig, who plays the video game “religiously” for two hours everyday...
...Mus?e Guimet. And what a world it was?a paradise of courtesans and Kabuki stars, teahouses and "green houses," where courtesans entertained their customers. All of it was tolerated, though watched closely, by the shogunate. Originally the term "floating world," or ukiyo, referred to the Buddhist notion that the everyday grind of travail and tears is ephemeral. Yet the proprietors and patrons of the leisure districts that sprang up on the outskirts of Edo (Tokyo), Kyoto and Osaka in the 1600s turned that concept on its head. Life was to be savored. "Living only for the moment, turning our full...
...Rite Words in the Rote Order: Poetry in a Life,” breathless first-years and English-department luminaries alike were captivated by Heaney’s deft weaving of lighthearted anecdotes with serious exploration of poetry’s role in the everyday...