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Which philosopher has influenced you the most? Lucilla Teoh, SINGAPORE I wrote my dissertation on Thomas Aquinas and he remains a great model of honest reason. In the last decades I've been more and more influenced by the American pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce. He was a great genius, one of the inventors of modern semiotics...
...Malaysia commemorated 50 years of independence this past summer, but the celebratory pageantry masked an underlying identity crisis. In many ways, the country is a success story, the very model of a modern Asian nation. Buoyed by oil revenue, capital Kuala Lumpur bristles with skyscrapers and industrial parks, while a massive administrative capital called Putrajaya has risen from what were palm-oil plantations two decades ago. In September, Malaysia's first astronaut blasted into space, his flight mirroring the nation's ambitions. Poverty has been reduced from half the population at independence to just 5% today, as an affirmative-action...
...death, during which he drafted his will and bequeathed his 300-book library and half of his estate to a small college in Newtown that became the famed research institution in Cambridge. “My hope is for the students to find in John Harvard a role model, the opportunity to be altruistic, and most importantly, to give,” Van Devere said. A dearth of biographical information about Harvard has left dramatists like Van Devere with a unique opportunity. There have been few attempts to dramatize the life of this Puritan reverend in the last 400 years...
Qian also credited his thesis adviser David Der-Wei Wang, a professor of Chinese literature, for much of his success. “He has been a real model to me, and I don’t know where I would be without...
...unique atmosphere. A number of other Square “fixtures,” including the Brattle theatre, have had to be saved by generous patrons. The sort of “surgical intervention” employed to open the Market in the square should serve as a model for HRES and Harvard in the future to preserve and attract the types of businesses that give the Square its offbeat ambience. Besides being good for student life, such a policy would hopefully preserve what’s left of Harvard Square’s quirky character that makes...