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...with a random person at a party, but deep relationships are way too passé for us. We can do 100 things at once, but have trouble doing one in depth. (If we do only one, people might think we actually care about it, and God forbid that might happen.) Irony is the easiest way of doing something without fear of being judged. Irony is safe, and we like safe.Consider the Frat Pack comedies, which regularly spoon-feed ’80s rock songs to young moviegoers. “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” had Asia?...
...been set up for inter-institutional relations,” explains Cathy H. Winnie, director of the OIP. “But the more you have an exchange of bodies going both ways, the more you have a fabric, a network of relations.” Although this can happen with other kinds of study abroad programs, Winnie explains that close ties aren’t always easy to come by. “Especially if you go with another group of schools,” she adds. Harvard’s current exchanges include the Killam Fellowships Academic Exchange...
...figured this would happen. There have been rumors and it made sense,” said Michael W. Judge ’07. “People have been questioning since the beginning of the year how much longer they would be here...
...that the distinction will be easily—and consistently—blurred. Such nay-sayers should bear in mind however, that this is not the Core we’re talking about; muddling of the sort that has marred the old curriculum quite simply won’t happen in the new. Trust...
...Baghdad to a packed house of almost 2,000 people. Like many then living in the misinformation bubble created by Saddam's regime, war was the farthest thing from his mind. "It was such a surprise," he said of the war soon after. "We never thought it would happen." Now war is constantly on Mahdi's mind, and he himself is sort of wandering, one of the million Iraqi refugees now living in Syria. Unlike many of his refugee compatriots, Mahdi at least has a job. Every evening he performs one of the star roles in Homesick, a play written...