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Here are a couple of examples. The friend of mine who just came back from Tanzania wrote in an e-mail that “…being stuck in a box with nothing but the BBC makes for a postmodern haven that is, at moments, unfulfilling. I fear I’ve also come to the realization that Cambridge, Mass. is a better place to study Africa than the continent itself, unless one really knows what s/he is doing. I’m afraid I feel guilty enough about receiving school credit for the classes I took this...
...envy. Of course, mostly we hear about alcohol. We hear stories about our friends getting smashed and hooking up with that girl in tight jeans and pointy, Euro-trash boots. Or about how wine is really cheap in Italy, beer in Germany, or Ouzo in Greece. A friend of mine who just got home from Africa sent along large bottle of Tanzanian liqueur. Notice a pattern...
...there as illegals (Soviet spies) and who had been set up in a small hotel or business and had done a runner." Symonds also says he specialized in providing background stories for spies. Mention the alleged mole inside asio and Symonds becomes cryptic. "It could have been one of mine," he says, referring to the agents for whom he created false identities. "I like to wonder, Where are all my boys now? Are they in high-up positions in the government...
...Mine is a world where identity is a fluid and invisible concept, ever-changing and unreliable, and thus where the only true qualifications a person has are the creativity of his (or her!) art and the strength of his or her argument. And lest you think I’m a dreamer, I’d like to point out that my world, or at least some facsimile of it, exists—and you enter it every time you turn on your computer and open your web browser or instant messaging client...
...money! Harvard students are quite good at segmenting all aspects of their lives so that there is no connection between what they believe in and what they do. But at this peculiar historical moment, we cannot allow ourselves to equivocate or make excuses. As a good friend of mine, Derrick N. Ashong ’97, said in an email, “the stakes are too high...