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...Historical Studies A-13: “China, Tradition and Transformation”; Historical Studies B-40: “Pursuits of Happiness”; and Quantitative Reasoning 48: “Bits”—according to committee member Alexander “Zander” N. Li ’08. In February, the Committee also added Literature & Arts A-88: “Interracial Literature” to the Gen Ed roster, which now includes 22 courses. According to Li, the vast majority of proposals received by the committee have been for existing Core courses...
...inside Papa Costa's, the party is only just getting started. Aid workers jostle for space on the dancefloor with young Sudanese women who are content to let their scarves slip to their shoulders as a five-piece band hammers out a mixture of North African pop and rock 'n roll jukebox standards...
...spoke a fair amount of Spanish - rather than polemical. And as the trip drew to a close and the excitement over his sex-scandal responses quieted, it became increasingly clear that although this supposedly "interim" Pope will never be, as Bono once called John Paul II, the rock-'n'-roll style "front man" for his church, he has grown fully into the public aspect of the role. At the North Tower footprint at Ground Zero on Sunday, he kneeled in silent prayer for a full two and a half minutes, the moment made all the more dramatic by the morning...
...Students accepted into the society said they were grateful for the honor and excited to be recognized. “I remember reading about the award my freshman year in The Crimson when the seniors were elected at the beginning of the fall semester,” said Malorie N. Snider ’09, one of the juniors to be inducted into the society. “So now it’s kind of come full circle in getting to experience that.” The 24 junior inductees are Isha Agarwal, Charles R. Drummond, Marta M. Figlerowicz...
...does establish him as a writer in the Russian model. It is not that Gessen sees no room for levity in “Literary Men”—rest assured, there are plenty of the witticisms that make reading his literary magazine, n+1, so enjoyable—but rather that he perceives literature not as just a means of entertainment, but as a powerful social force, an attitude that has its roots in the literary criticism of the great 19th-century Russian thinker Vissarion Belinsky—and one that is both the novel?...