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...Kate and Ashley were nursing crack pipes, and laughed at their misfortune. When Lindsay Lohan started wearing them, however, I knew ankle boots had moved into the popular consciousness. I was frightened and consigned myself to my room so that I could silently reflect on them, cry, and make Gregorian chants. Then I purchased a pair the next day. Do I hate myself for this moment of sartorial weakness? Do I feel that it displays my mercurial and capricious nature, willing to give up my principles on a moment’s notice, yet unable to individuate myself from...
Royal knows how to play tough. Born in Dakar, Senegal, the daughter of a French army officer, she grew up as the fourth of eight children in a large house in Lorraine. Her father's regime was a strict one (the family intoned Gregorian chants on Sundays). Royal attended a Catholic boarding school and the University of Nancy before attaining the classical educational polish of the French political lite: a degree from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and another from the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA), where her class included the current Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin...
...Dakar, Senegal, the daughter of a French army officer, she grew up as the fourth of eight children in a large house in Lorraine, not far from that of her paternal grandfather, an army general. Her father's regime was a strict one (the family had to sing Gregorian chants on Sundays). Royal was sent to a Catholic boarding school and the University of Nancy before attaining the classical educational polish of the French political élite: a degree from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris ("Sciences Po") and another from the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ena), where...
...right direction. Today, we need to be integrating knowledge, not fragmenting it. Vartan Gregorian, the former president of Brown University, has termed the project “the reconstruction of the unity of knowledge” in a coruscating 2004 essay. He writes, “[T]he complexity of the world requires us to have a better understanding of the relationships and connections between all fields.” A society more fragmented than today’s, Gregorian argues, has more of a dependence on experts and more of a temptation to eschew judgment in favor of accepted...
...same essay, Gregorian had noted how a society that catered to a fragmented vision of knowledge was one that would perpetually crave wholeness. Last month, Harvard took a small step to becoming just such a place. At some point, it too shall crave wholeness...