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...here is a sweeping generalization, but perhaps a useful one: Western societies are cultures of personal revelation and exposure, while Muslim cultures are traditionally structured around protecting honor and propriety. On our shrunken planet, the two codes bump up against one another, throwing each other into relief. The same era that's given us the tell-all circus that is Big Brother and a cybervideo of Paris Hilton in flagrante also seems to have produced a striking rise in Western Muslims taking up the veil. The more of private life Western pop culture reveals, the more Muslim women decide...
...Republican, but those who are tripping over one another to crusade for Petraeus' honor need to realize how silly they look. Even so, Kinsley weakened his credibility by failing to give examples of Democrats who have behaved similarly. Daniel Jensen, Ann Arbor, Mich...
...Along the way, some of Ayala’s top leaders trained at Harvard—including its current CEO, Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II ’81, who last week became the first Filipino to be recognized with the Harvard Business School’s highest honor for its alumni. Zobel has focused on innovative ways to improve Ayala Corporation and the $22 million non-profit Ayala Foundation, whose goal is to strengthen Filipino culture, public education, and the leadership skills of Filipino youth. Since he became president of the corporation in 1995, Zobel has built Ayala?...
...search is a process in which departments canvas scholars and experts in a field. The objective of the search is to find luminaries outside of Harvard capable of satisfying the University’s high expectations for tenure, which are described in the University-issued faculty handbook as an honor “reserved for scholars of the first order of eminence who have demonstrated excellence in teaching and research and who have the capacity to make significant contributions to the departments proposing the appointment...
...tone to be sounded at the same time. Yesterday’s ceremony marked another chapter in the decades-long saga to send the bells home and to commission and cast replacements for Harvard. The Business School’s new bell, which was dubbed the Centennial Bell in honor of the school’s 100th anniversary next year, rang in its new home for the first time. A half-size replica of the bell was simultaneously unveiled on the lawn in front of the library. The new bell is engraved with illustrations of the Baker Library and Danilov...