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...says. “Usually, I’m doing homework, sleeping, or playing in concerts.” And as for a social life, she says, laughing, “I don’t know what even means a ‘social life?? in English. But I think I don’t have a social life.” She perhaps puts it best when she explains the composition of her average day: “The whole day is work.” For serious pianists, there is often a choice between...
...stop believing. Hold on to that feeling.” What the song teaches us is to stop searching for the next quick pleasure in the easiest way possible, to look around us and enjoy what we have now, without irony and without shame. Because, ultimately, life??s not about the destination: It’s about the Journey.—Sachi A. Ezura ’08 is a Sociology concentrator in Eliot House. At time of writing, she has not stopped believing...
...letters or journals. Moved by these records, Munro has crafted an uneven but poignant collection of penetrating meditations that partially deal with the effects of religion and poverty on lives and attitudes across generations, but mostly focus on the intimate nature of identity, the way every detail of a life??worn linoleum, movie magazines, apple trees in bloom—becomes important to a person as she attempts to find her place in the world. It is, she says, a fictionalized family history and memoir that contains “more attention to the truth of a life...
...some form or another, this was the central idea behind both the classical Greek notion of paideia and the 18th and 19th century German idea of Bildung. Getting a general education, on these models, was a matter of becoming sensitive to the demands of the “good life??—of learning what was admirable to aspire to and of developing the character to pursue such aspirations. Since then, and to our great detriment, we have rejected this model entirely...
...society. Muslims, in particular, have become an easy target for sensationalist media with thriving post-9/11 McCarthyism. Never mind the fact that Obama is a committed Christian; an even-speculative connection to Islam is enough in some people’s eyes to discredit his entire life??s work. Like the rumors spread about Senator John McCain’s illegitimate black child in 2000, this political slander is—sadly enough—unquestionably effective. Obama’s political opponents might as well have hit the jackpot...