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...characters are brought face to face with dystopia and the world of science fiction. Time machines and stampeding gangs of smoking abolitionists break through the white static of the protagonists’ humdrum lives. Tsutsui’s surreal elements forcibly draw attention to the need for an expressive outlet in a world marked by such brutal pressure to conform.And indeed, the pressure to conform is brutal. The men in these stories (and every one is written from a masculine perspective) face the unrelenting duress of not bringing shame to their family, friends, work, or nation. Both ends...
...event, organized by Matthew Bird ’10, Heidi L. Hirschl ’10, and Ethel D. Bressman ’10, featured The Harvard University Drummers and EXP, the traveling members of Expressions. Their goals were simple: raise money for cancer, give student groups an outlet to perform, and show students a good time. The three friends worked under the auspices of The Jimmy Fund, which is the funding arm of the Dana-Farber Institute for Cancer. Dana-Farber, which is affiliated with Harvard Medical School, has been treating patients and studying cancer for more than...
...Downing Street phones ring off the hook as policymakers and financiers vie for a few minutes of his wisdom. When he's not doling out advice, he's meeting with his economic "war cabinet," or giving speeches and blitzing every conceivable media outlet. He has traveled to the European Council in Brussels and before that to Paris for an emergency summit of euro-zone countries - even though he refused to adopt the euro during his 10-year tenure as Chancellor of the Exchequer. With marked success, his Treasury successor, Alistair Darling, has promoted the patented Brown rescue plan...
...through rigorous practice in the same way that one might pursue excellence in sports or music. For example, offering more math-based extracurricular opportunities with the appropriate resources will serve to both increase the presence of math as something useful and non-threatening and provide some a more social outlet to counter stereotypes of math’s “nerdiness.” For too long, mathematics has languished in academic and social disrepute among elementary and high schools students. Changing the social perception of math is integral to its revival as a culturally valued subject. Janet...
...better strategy might be to cut at the roots of this dissatisfaction with the central government. The Taliban has capitalized on widespread disillusion with corrupt, centrally appointed officials to recruit to its cause. Few Afghans feel that they have an adequate outlet for settling grievances, like land disputes, so they are more likely to turn to Taliban courts that have sprung up in government vacuums. Real reconciliation, says Nathan, should be taking place at the grass roots, with Afghans who have become alienated from the government. If they can be persuaded that the government is looking after their needs, they...