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...Latin, universitas—suggests, even if it did not originally imply, a certain universality, an ability to understand, analyze, and evaluate all ideas, whether Western or not. Just because the Greeks invented philosophy does not mean that no other culture can learn from its insights.Characterized by narrow-minded disciplines and an uncritical fixation on contemporary issues, the current state of liberal learning at Harvard would do well to expand its horizons and require a regimen for all undergraduates in Greek and Latin.Christopher B. Lacaria ’09, a Crimson editorial writer, is a history concentrator in Kirkland House...
...time, took on a new character. Getting your nails done wasn’t selfish, it was a kind of neighborhood beautification. I was living in a city of 40 million filthy, scuffed, aching feet, but all across Mumbai women were getting pedicures?on Malabar Hill, in the narrow slum alleys of Dharavi, women were getting their toes painted, and now it was my turn, like anyone else, to add to the city’s kaleidoscope of color...
...control has walled off the country's banks from most of the potentially harmful effects of the crisis. Although the country's membership in the World Trade Organization has required it to open its financial services sector to global competition and investment in 2006, "there is still only a narrow range of derivative instruments and innovation in financial products is still slow," says Sun Fei, Managing Director and Chief Economist at Hong Kong-based fund manager China International Capital. In other words, China's financial sector is just primitive enough to have prevented its banks from getting burned by buying...
...longer-term ramifications” against caged production. After similar ballot initiatives against pig and veal calf confinement in Florida and Arizona in 2002 and 2006 respectively, industry took the message. Smithfield Farms, one of the nation’s largest pig producers, announced it would phase out narrow gestation crates, and even Burger King promised to adopt more cage-free products...
...It’s an odd contention that 250,000 chickens would by choice flock into one barn and cram themselves into narrow wire cages. And it doesn’t explain why egg producers have to ‘de-beak’ battery caged chickens–searing off their beaks to stop the stressed birds from pecking each other to death. Both the California Veterinary Medical Association and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals endorsed Prop Two, citing the suffering caged animals endure when denied their basic instinct to move...