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How did cultural infantilization creep up on us? In The Disappearance of Childhood, a wonderful little book first published in 1982, Neil Postman, a New York University professor who died this month, identified a shift from a culture based on literature - on reading - to one based on the image. In...
Editorial boards at the Miami Herald, the Washington Times and, Monday, The Crimson as well have beseeched the United States government to take a role in righting Bolivia’s sinking government. They want to see foreign attention brought to bear on Bolivia’s domestic problems. But...
“During the first year of his detention, Dr. Yang Jianli was not only held incommunicado and in solitary confinement, but we just learned he was not allowed to exercise outside his cell, was denied access to all reading materials, and was interrogated by [People’s...
The Harvard women’s volleyball team learned that valuable lesson twice this weekend in true heartbreaking fashion. Against both Penn and Princeton the Crimson grabbed an early 2-1 lead, but allowed the Killer P’s to come back and win each match 3-2.
With a novice in the top office and radical forces still playing on the xenophobic resurgence, such as Indian Leader Felipe Quispe, who has assembled his own “Indigenous Congress” outside the Bolivian capitol, the situation is far from settled. With far left Hugo Chavez leading...