Word: heartbeats
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...Matory succeeded in cracking the front page, his colleagues cruelly rebuffed his sentiments. The Faculty thus poked a fatal hole in the dike that holds back the deluge of repression that threatens to turn “fair” Harvard into Arab-hating, Dictator-inviting Columbia in a heartbeat...
...there we're not as emotionally attentive as we might be - and our minor triumphs - the children perform endearingly at the school concert. But this we almost never acknowledge that tragedy of the kind that can forever shatter our middle class contentment is ever and always only a heartbeat, a hair's breadth, away...
Since Vietnam, Israel has become the heartbeat of U.S. foreign policy and a litmus test of what can be debated—and even of who will be allowed to speak—on university campuses. This year, the Congress of the University and College Union—the British lecturers’ union—proposed a boycott of Israeli universities and academics for what it regards as their complicity in 40 years of Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. This boycott has its counterpart in a decades-old U.S. practice of threatening, defaming, or censoring scholars who dare...
...discovered early on that I look ambiguously Asian enough to blend into China, South Korea, or Mongolia without raising suspicions that I am not a local. Few Mongolians ask for my full name, but when they do, there is sometimes an almost imperceptible flinch or a heartbeat of silence. Zhang is the second most common Chinese surname, boasting over 100 million people—40 times the population of Mongolia. Ironically, this name was one adopted by my Mongolian ancestors because the nomads traditionally never had family names. If I reveal that I am a quarter Mongolian, the change...
...mania surrounding Princess Diana has calmed since she died. The industry that was built from it, though, is still going strong - a steady heartbeat of Dianabilia that keeps the princess's memory alive as long as people keep reaching into their pockets. The queen of cultural icons, Diana is one of a handful of superstars who can still shift the merchandise long after they're gone. Like Elvis, Diana has a loyal army of fans for whom every commemorative coin, plate and velvet portrait is a must-have. Like Marilyn Monroe (another tragic blond who died young and beautiful), Diana...