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With the Massachusetts primary next Tuesday, 15 Minutes uses this issue to profile two of the major minor presidential candidates. Larry Agran and Lenora Fulani, and two minor presidential candidates, Howard Phillips and Michael Levinson. In addition, we offer a personal account of what it's like to be a...
Celtic Heritage: Marginal versus Residual IndoEuropean--by Eric Hamp, professor emeritus, Linguistics, University of Chicago. CLCS Seminar Room, 61 Kirkland St., 4:15 p.m.
President Reagan raised skeptical eyebrows back in 1986 when he rhapsodized about plans to build the Orient Express, a hypersonic jet that could take off from a New York airport and reach Tokyo in two hours by taking a side trip into orbit. It turns out that while space fan...
Last fall some Tokyo-based foreign journalists discovered and wrote about kembei, which means "resentment of America." Their stories unleashed fears that a new strain of anti-Americanism was emerging. But the word was never in widespread use and has since virtually disappeared. Writer Yoshimi Ishikawa, who claims credit for...
The '80s brought the retreat and virtual disappearance of the American left as a political, as distinct from a cultural, force. It went back into the monastery -- that is, to academe -- and also extruded out into the art world, where it remains even more marginal and impotent. Meanwhile, a considerable...