Word: helling
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...think, occasionally important to ask yourself that odd question: “What the hell am I doing here?” It is perhaps easier, though no less important, to ask this question right as you are about to leave (and Harvard will kick us out with very little ceremony on June 5, following the exaggerated ceremonialism of the preceding two days of graduation). Why did I choose my concentration? Why did I choose my thesis topic? Why am I going to graduate school? What is the value of an education...
...Management Hell It's precisely because the Chinese bureaucracy's idea of an ideal city doesn't include peddlers and street vendors that the chengguan developed into such a powerful institution. One need only look at Beijing during the 2008 Olympics, when most temporary food stalls, pedicabs, illegal taxis and beggars were banished, to get a sense of how China wants its cities to appear. "Some government officials are oblivious to reality, and aim to build a vendorless city as their political achievement," He says...
...Tamil rights. There is still some hope of a political settlement that will grant Tamils some protection and greater autonomy; the Sri Lankan government is expected to ask for millions in international aid to rebuild the north. But the dream of eelam may be dead. (Read "Escape from Hell: Refugees Flee Sri Lankan War Zone...
...course the song that made her famous is among the most miserable of show tunes, sung by a broken, destitute girl: "I had a dream my life would be/ So different from this hell I'm living/ So different now from what it seemed./ Now life has killed the dream I dreamed...
...Monsters: Cosmology, Anthropology, and the Ends of the World — What a title. It just took us on an extraterrestrial ride, in all its twelve-word glory. The course will explore the "position of humans as cultural creatures at the intersection of nature and spirit." Whatever the hell that means...