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...industries. E.U. funds currently help fishermen retire at 55 and pay to train them for new careers in tourism. Whatever the economic incentives to change their ways, in many small towns there is a sense of a way of life passing away - often yielding to an easier, more lucrative modern existence. In Garrucha, old men fish; their sons do not. "There are other options now," says Cervantes, the fishermen's federation president. For fishermen, perhaps. But for the tuna...
...went for Eros not so much because I was a horny kid (though I was) as because I was a pretentious one. My bedroom library was stocked with such scholarly tomes as The Natural History of Love, Eros in the Modern World, the Kinsey Report and Ginzburg's own survey, An Unhurried View of Erotica. Of these books I remember little except odd bits of effluvia. Kinsey informed me that one in seven farm lads had engaged in, shall we say, animal husbandry ("Until," as Tom Lehrer would add, "they caught him at it"). From Ginzburg I learned that Benjamin...
...last spring’s Kaavyagate was any indication that Chick Lit is in, then the Women, Gender, and Sexuality department has certainly taken notice. “The Romance” will compare classic Austen novels to modern revisions such as Bridget Jones’s Diary. Just don’t expect “How Opal Mehta...” to be on the syllabus...
Historical Study A-74, “Contemporary China: The People’s Republic and Taiwan in the Modern World...
...Before freshmen jump head first into UC races, they should take serious notes in Williams Professor of History and Political Science Roderick MacFarquhar’s new class. This seminar on modern political leadership will look at examples of leaders who have “wreaked great havoc...