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Upon entering the 21st Amendment, the debate lulled momentarily as we were shown to a cozy set of tables in the back of the dimly lit bar. The Tudor-style windows were left ajar so that passersby could hear Harvard’s boisterous contributions to the pantheon of political theory. The ROTC discussion degenerated into yells of “I think you’re wrong!” and, “Of course you do, you’re a Democrat!” It was clear that this debate would not die without an interruption?...
Marjane Satrapi is a typical headstrong girl on the cusp of adolescence: she questions her teachers, her parents and her society. It just happens that society is a misogynistic theocracy. Persepolis (Pantheon; 153 pages) is Satrapi's memoir of growing up in a well-off progressive family in the wake of Iran's Islamic revolution. Marjane's mother tapes their windows (to guard against bombs) and covers them in black curtains (to guard against their devout neighbors' prying). Drawn in simple, bold lines with wide, inquisitive eyes, Marjane is precocious and passionate, and her small rebellions (sneaking a cigarette) mirror...
...general education requirement must also reflect the vast expansion of learning in the past three decades. No longer is it feasible to attempt to mandate a finite amount of knowledge that all students must be exposed to before they may enter the Pantheon of the educated. However, the new general education requirement must also not indulge in the relativism of the current Core. A course on “Viking and Nordic Heroic Tradition” can no longer masquerade as an alternative to Dante’s Divine Comedy...
...thing that will astonish you most about Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" is not that it is a graphic work published by a major trade house (Pantheon, an imprint of Random House). Nor will it be the luxurious quality of the production - a hardcover with a die-cut dust-jacket that lets a character peek through from the cover. Instead, "Persepolis" (153 pp.; $17.95) will zap you with its story. A memoir of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran, "Persepolis" provides a unique glimpse into a nearly unknown and unreachable way of life. It has the strange quality...
...predominantly white, middle-class neighborhood, the once tacitly segregated public parks are slowly integrating as more mixed-raced families like theirs frequent them. "Multiracial living begets more multiracial living, period," says Randall Kennedy, a Harvard Law School professor and author of Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption (Pantheon). That's especially true, he adds, now that mixed marriage in the South is being accepted at all social levels--and working-class couples like the one played by Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry in the 2001 movie Monster's Ball have become more common. "That's the most potent...