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Here at Harvard, anti-capitalist convictions are frequently misunderstood as angsty and anti-historical??or worse, the product of misguided privilege guilt. I consider that closed-mindedness self-serving negligence. The economic theory preached at our institution seems a textbook “ruling ideology,” frantically cloaking bourgeois agendas in the alluring rhetoric of rising tides and individual liberties. It’s hardly coincidental, after all, that Ec 10 renders heroic the careers most of us are funneled into upon graduation. The longer we let the wool be pulled over our eyes, the harder...
...beer” among Harvard students says Philip “Beamer” R. Eisele ’08, a student manager at the pub. At the presentation, Jaime C. Schier, representative from Boston-based Harpoon Brewery, enlightened students about the origins of beer, and its importance to historical??not just college—culture. Diana L. Link ’08, a student who attended the 1.5-hour lesson, “enjoyed the specifics he went into.” Students had a chance to take a hands-on approach, by chewing malted barley seeds...
...writes in an email. So why is there a need for a 21st-century overhaul? For the producers and director of this new adaptation, the answer is simple: the 1595 version has the substance, but not the style, to appeal to audiences today. ‘TRAGICAL-HISTORICAL??In “Hamlet,” the elderly courtier Polonius famously rattles off a long list of hyphenated, smashed-together categories of drama. Of these, the designation “tragical-historical?? fits “Richard II” perfectly. Sometimes billed as a tragedy...
...Sadie tells Marianne, “that’s all you got in this world”). Reaching from anecdotes before Sadie and Jim are born to the turmoil of the Reconstruction Era South, it has an epic quality, without feeling imposing; “historical?? data float in and out of the narrative, more or less organically...
...Bush’s pre-9/11 mentality—as of 36 days before 9/11—was to ignore a briefing entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside the United States,” because he felt it was an “historical?? curiosity...