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...global ambitions. Mandarins decided that oceangoing voyages were a waste of time and money; soon the great naval shipyards in Nanjing had been broken up, and China retreated into a self-absorbed attitude of mind that it would not lose for half a millennium. It's a cautionary note, a reminder that the waves of trade that knit us together can ebb as well as flow. There is a famous passage in The Economic Consequences of the Peace, written by John Maynard Keynes in 1920, which every student of globalization knows by heart. Keynes describes life as it existed...
...championed by a small minority of women at Harvard. But if it makes the aforementioned RUS members happy, then so be it. Here’s where Chadbourne’s clarification comes in. The real issue is location, location, location. He wrote: “If (please note the word IF) the Dorm basements in the Yard were to be emptied of all of the clubs that currently have offices there and are occupied instead by only freshman social space, the Foundation, this women’s center, the BGLTSA Resource Center, [and] prayer space for religious groups that...
Like many other doctors, Silber and Sweet believe all sleeping pills are overprescribed and note that physicians may be giving their patients the heavily marketed drugs they ask for in order to focus what's left of their increasingly abbreviated office visit on more serious complaints...
CYRUS CHESTNUT GENUINE CHESTNUT What makes Chestnut the best jazz pianist of his generation is a willingness to abandon notes and to play space. He rescues Roberta Flack's The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and Bread's truly horrible AM-radio hit If from years of accumulated treacle by tinkling out the barest hint of melody, confidently letting each note float around until it resolves itself in your head. He's equally adept at spelling his minimalism with funk on the original Ellen's Song, and closes with a solo version of Lord, I Give Myself...
...eliminating that ambiguity—in seeking the truth of their mother’s actions and admitting the truth of their abuse—that Frederic and his sister Gerda are able to achieve peace. That conclusion “Pelican” ends on a hopeful note, despite the dark journey it took to get there.—Staff writer Mary A. Brazelton can be reached at mbrazelt@fas.harvard.edu...