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...less powerful. As China's major cities - there are now 49 with populations of one million or more, compared with nine in the U.S. in 2000 - become more crowded and more expensive, a phenomenon similar to the one that reshaped the U.S. in the aftermath of World War II has begun to take hold. That is the inevitable desire among a rapidly expanding middle class for a little bit more room to live, at a reasonable price; maybe a little patch of grass for children to play on, or a whiff of cleaner air as the country's cities become...
Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II clarified yesterday that the working draft does not in fact include this stipulation. The option of employing BAT teams at Stein Clubs will remain up to the discretion of individual House masters, he wrote in an e-mailed statement...
...Britain and Catholicism" incorrectly stated that Canada is a commonwealth of the United Kingdom. On the contrary, it is sovereign and not subject to any British legislative power. However, Canada is a member of both the Commonwealth realm, an organization of 16 sovereign countries that recognize Queen Elizabeth II as their monarch, and the Commonwealth of Nations, an international organization composed of 53 sovereign states, many of which used to be British colonies. Also, the writer mistakenly referenced the "Commonwealth League of Nations." This organization does not exist. The writer intended to reference the Commonwealth of Nations, which is described...
...deposits us in the most complex theater that exists, the human mind, and from there we watch protagonist Alfred F. Day struggle with the only two things perhaps equally complex, and unstintingly envisioned as such by Kennedy: war and love. Five years may have passed since World War II, but the eponymous Day, former Sergeant and gunner in Her Majesty’s Royal Air Force, relives the war day in and day out. Understanding he can never move forward until he buries the corpses littered throughout his memories, Day returns to a POW camp in Germany with the avowed...
...Homerian journey. Must a hero’s journey end with a homecoming? Such broadly philosophical questions permeate the novel—at times to the point of oversaturation—but Schlink’s narrative is also touchingly sympathetic to the characters of this post-World War II odyssey.The novel’s protagonist, Peter Debauer, grew up with his mother in Germany, spending summers at his paternal grandparents’ home in Switzerland. He knew his father through photographs and stories that his grandparents told him; his mother informed him only that his father had been shot...