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...same as nostalgia. There is little romance or Proustian yearning here (although a childhood storybook fills Ritwik with "a strange longing"). But if Mukherjee is scathing about Ritwik's history in a city "that had leaped out of the pages of Dante and transposed east," he also refuses to extol Oxford as the site of Ritwik's apparent freedom. Ritwik ignores the university town's prettiness, fixating instead on the "s___-brown door" of the toilet cubicle he favors for his risky liaisons. And London, while offering the superficial promise of multiculturalism, is fundamentally plagued by racism...
...should I extol my admittedly-biased opinion when I can let Elaine Roden, executive director of the Shane Center, do the talking...
...year after we watched Al Gore ’69 extol the virtues of sustainability to the Harvard community, hot cider and apple pie clutched in our palms, the flags in the yard are taken down, the free t-shirts are shoved in the bottom of our dressers, and you might be wondering: is green still the new Crimson?Thanks to the Office For Sustainability (OFS), the undergraduate Resource Efficiency Program (REP), and the cooperation of the University and students, it is. The flags and t-shirts may be gone, but the blue recycling bins remain stacked in every dorm...
...number of tomes with the word in the title--Total Leadership, The Leadership Code, Leadership for Dummies (of course)--can make you think it has replaced dieting as a way to move merchandise. Listen to politicians' stump speeches, and it will be seconds before you hear them extol their unique leadership qualities...
...Still, in the absence of the Geneva Conventions, ancient peoples did maintain "some sense of what it was to cross the line," says Mayor. Across cultures, it was customary to deplore trickery and extol the virtues of the noble warrior. The Brahmanic Laws of Manu, a code of Hindu principles first articulated in the fifth century B.C., forbade the use of arrows tipped with fire or poison. Written in India a century later, Kautilya's Arthashastra, one of the world's earliest treatises on war and realpolitik, advocates surprise night raids and offers recipes for plague-generating toxins...