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...level, even Hiroshima, my home for eight years and, according to its tourist literature "the international city of peace," denies Korean conscripts killed in the A-bomb blast a monument in Peace Memorial Park because its foreign presence would sully the sanctum's purity. "Internationalization," as oft-quoted a mantra here as anywhere, means little on street level beyond flag-bunting, expressway signs in English and more Starbucks franchises...
...Michael installed Surfwatch—a popular Internet filter—to avoid sex-filled websites. “I knew if I was a good Christian then I shouldn’t look at it, especially four times a week” he says. His mantra became a verse from the New Testament: “If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to go into hell” (Matthew...
It’s possible that the study of identity—what it means, how it is formed, and what role it plays in social interactions—does possess an independent methodology and deserves to be a separate discipline. In this context, the Faculty’s mantra that “ethnic studies are inherently comparative” makes perfect sense; the study of identity should be abstracted from the experiences of particular groups in the same way that history is abstracted from its archeological and philological fodder. And in this general field, Harvard already has courses...
Another oft repeated—and easily discarded—mantra of anti-Core partisans concern the nature of the courses themselves. In particularly, people like to lament that they are not sufficiently challenged or engaged by the “watered-down” offerings of the Core. For my part, and admittedly I may just be academically impaired, I have felt extremely challenged in each of my Core classes—indeed, just as much or more than in any of my elective or concentration courses—and not a single one of the many Core classes...
...year-old Sachi Matsuyama of Tokyo recently closed her account, but with no particular urgency. "Interest rates were so low, there was no reason to keep my money there," she says. " I just have enough saved to pay for my funeral." That's becoming a kind of national mantra. "We are rich enough to sustain ourselves for another five years," says Sakakibara. That, he says, is the problem - an excuse for not acting. "Because we can do nothing, that's what we'll do. And that will only make things worse." Like the individuals who draw on their savings accounts...