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...sugarcane, with liners bound for Cape Town and Colombo. You might think, to read some of imperialism's apologists, that such a familiarity with exotic climes would have bred a reverence for foreign cultures, as if every child of empire wanted to do something noble, like translate the Bhagavad Gita or teach for a year in Sierra Leone. Sadly, not so. In Britain, the imperialist adventure produced a belief that Britons were better than anyone with dark skin. In my hometown, imperialism bred a pervasive racism. When John Barnes, a great black soccer player, first played for Liverpool, the fans...
...country's successful rocket and satellite programs, and also renowned for supervising India's 1998 nuclear weapons tests, as President of India; in New Delhi. Aside from an avid interest in Indian culture-he plays the veena, a traditional Indian instrument, and is an authority on the Bhagavad Gita-he's also dedicated to making India a major military power. "Our neighbors have nuclear weapons," he has said. "Do you want us to be invaded?" The Indian presidency is a largely ceremonial position...
...movie should get its own chapter. Art director Catherine Martin reimagined the famous Montmartre nightclub as something like Pee-wee's Playhouse in Gotham City, stuffed to bursting with bright ideas and dark corners. The inspirations came from everywhere--fashion photography, the technicolor "Paris" of old Hollywood, the Bhagavad Gita. Plus there's a boudoir-in-an-elephant...
...movie should get its own chapter. Art director Catherine Martin reimagined the famous Montmartre nightclub as something like Pee-wee's Playhouse in Gotham City, stuffed to bursting with bright ideas and dark corners. The inspirations came from everywhere - fashion photography, the technicolor "Paris" of old Hollywood, the Bhagavad Gita. Plus there's a boudoir-in-an-elephant...
Students read books like the Bhagavad Gita and John Stuart Mill's On Liberty with the goal of looking at themselves and their society in new ways. The one-semester course has achieved mythic status among Jewell students. Freshmen sweat it; sophomores freak the freshmen out about it; juniors grudgingly approve of it; and seniors reflect on it as life changing...