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...fight to connect with each other, and they had to fight against a culture that didn’t always treat scholarship with respect. Yet Faust shows how the Southern circle built a network of ideas; an American Quarterly article from 1979 has a particularly elegant circular map of the connections between Southern intellectuals, connections that we at Harvard try to make. Connections that started in one area produced shared insights in totally different fields. The business of Harvard is to produce knowledge through the connection of scholars and students; Faust has spent her life thinking about this process...
...Basic Law, Hong Kong's post-1997 constitution, which is based on a Chinese agreement with Britain on the colony's handover, allows that direct elections for the Chief Executive and the Legislative Council are Hong Kong's eventual goal. But the document does not specify a road map or timetable toward it. While China's leaders are committed to the Basic Law, they seem in no hurry to embrace direct elections. "They're anxious about moving too fast," says Anson Chan. "They're worried that there will be implications for stability; that Hong Kong will become a welfare state...
Just before the epilogue of I Am a Strange Loop, there's a photograph of a sculpture, an in-curving, interlaced metal knot that could almost be a three-dimensional map of one of those recursive, self-referential arguments Hofstadter is so fond of. When I saw it, I was struck not just by how beautiful it was but also by the fact that I'd seen it before: it was made by my sister, who was so deeply inspired by Gödel, Escher, Bach 28 years ago. Purely by chance, it was given to Hofstadter for Christmas one year...
...This article consists of a map. Please see hardcopy or pdf.] A recent poll asked people in 27 countries to rate the influence of other nations on the world. The U.S. has fallen sharply in world esteem over the past three years...
...Dubai is the Middle East's capital of quirkiness, with its man-made islands constructed as luxury housing estates visible from space in the form of palm trees and a map of the globe. Local recreation includes camel trekking in the desert, snorkeling in the Gulf or skiing down indoor slopes. Becoming an international metropolis also has its down side: Besides the soaring real estate prices and inflation estimated at 20%, other undesirable features of life in the new Dubai include massive daily traffic jams, a rise in prostitution, and growing discontent among the legions of mostly Asian laborers imported...