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...Harvard University Gazette. Kelly is the only Harvard affiliate to win the scholarship this year—an anomalously low Harvard representation. The University normally averages five to six Rhodes Scholars per year, according to Currier House Fellowships Tutor Scott A. Sowerby. Six Harvard students received the honor in 2004. “I do think that is unusual. I can’t think of any reason why this would happen,” Sowerby said.Kelly said he is not worried about Harvard’s ability to endorse winners. “I am sure Harvard will...
...Last week, we passed legislation asking Harvard to honor its specific promises with janitors,” said UC member Ryan M. Donovan ’07. “Why shouldn’t we want to honor the explicit promises we made with other schools...
...from the Middle East to Europe to the U.S. as if to test both your patience and your eye-brain coordination. Yet the film does see the world in three colors: black, for the oil that brings out man's cunning and killer instinct; gray, for the shades of honor and self-interest by which the main players try to define themselves; and red, for the blood spilled in Allah's and oil's names...
...make them invulnerable to German bullets. (It didn’t). So mulled over is the history of the event that panelists could only discuss how elephant hunters had occupied a “liminal space” or how Germany’s African soldiers had devised an honor-based rigeur amongst themselves.It evoked a time when I was digging through the University of Dar es Salaam library’s stacks. I found myself in a section filled with colonial travelogues, which had been left untouched for many years. Giddy, I scooped up handfuls and, no sooner...
...often used as a synonym for "meal." In Japan, schoolchildren are taught that Japanese civilization began with the introduction of rice farming. Most Japanese festivals revolve around rice and the rice harvest. South Korean families use rice cakes and rice wine as offerings in traditional Confucian ceremonies to honor their ancestors. Many local superstitions are based on the misuse of rice. "If you step on rice, your feet will be twisted," one warns; "If you spill rice while rinsing it, you will have a miscarriage," predicts another...