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...perked up their ears. As the storm clouds gathered, many of campus’ more politically vocal students were already airing their opinions, but when Summers officially announced his resignation, there was sharp increase in the volume of discussion among the College’s typically quiet student body. Owing to the obvious gravity of the issue, and perhaps Summers’ celebrity affectation among undergraduates, students wanted to know what was happening and why. They talked to their friends, they e-mailed their House lists, and they hopped online and blogged.In the fallout of the Summers resignation...
...easy to imagine the chips on their respective shoulders getting along great. Lady Sov turns disses from boys (The Battle) and slights from hip-hop stars (Random) who couldn't have known she existed when she wrote them into combustible energy that flows perfectly over tracks that owe more to house music than...
Rather, Appiah’s subject is the citizen (“polites”) of the cosmos: that is, the citizen who conceives of him or herself not as belonging to the “polis,” a city to which he or she would owe loyalty, but to the universe or the world in a broader sense. The conversation is one above and across cultures—a conversation in which the very idea of essentially distinct cultures cannot be heard over, say, the Iranian shopkeepers of Appiah’s native town of Kumasi...
...That's something like being the fifth Beatle but far more lucrative.) Indeed, inside Google, obsessing about the stock price is almost evil. Marissa Mayer, a vice president, imposes penalties on anyone she catches tracking the latest tick. "If I see someone looking at the share price, they owe the cost of one share," says Mayer. A few have had to pay up, she says. Early last week that could have meant a fine of nearly...
...there's no reason to offend people of any faith arbitrarily. We owe all faiths respect. But the Danish cartoons were not arbitrarily offensive. They were designed to reveal Islamic intolerance--and they have now done so, in abundance. The West's principles are clear enough. Tolerance? Yes. Faith? Absolutely. Freedom of speech? Nonnegotiable...