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...event he attends, Dan writes his own account. Soon ordinary people are bringing him heart-breaking tales of injustice and corruption in hopes he can help. When one of his exposés appears in print, Dan learns how perilous journalism can be. He also discovers, appropriately for modern China, that another reporter has pirated his intellectual property, swiping his name and bogus website to climb onto the gravy train. Then Dan takes one risk too many by sneaking Little Plum into a banquet, just so she can experience delights like sea cucumber and "minced pigeon breasts with mashed tofu...
...fears of Armageddon have always been with us. Our time is little different from all the eras in which people believed the end of the world was imminent. Yet here we are in a world that somehow has not come to an end, resurrecting ancient symbols to describe our modern doomsday and thinking that things have never been this...
DAWKINS: Can I begin with an analogy? Most people understand that sexual lust has to do with propagating genes. Copulation in nature tends to lead to reproduction and so to more genetic copies. But in modern society, most copulations involve contraception, designed precisely to avoid reproduction. Altruism probably has origins like those of lust. In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they shared our genes. Now we live in big cities. We are not among kin nor people who will ever reciprocate our good...
...before he or she can be fit to be called a graduate of Columbia. There are no exceptions or excuses. It is not freedom that is important, but enlightened freedom. The current Core proposal proclaims that such enlightenment will only be reached when we update the tools to face modern challenges. Yet the human condition has changed little since Homer, Dante, or Shakespeare. We are still passionate about love, troubled by death, and profoundly confused as to how to run our societies. The main qualm people have with this approach is that it is difficult; someone has to choose which...
...most powerful pieces speak to twentieth century African-American cultural heritage. A 1920’s advertisement depicting a subservient black waiter serving a chocolate concoction stands next to several modern deconstructions of other such exploitations of black culture in marketing...