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...According to some professors, that attention to religion, calling to mind world events since Sept. 11, is part of a program that is too focused on the present...
...hadn’t expected it, but that turned out to be the best present I could give to myself. I had been living for the previous month with Anke, a 30-something filmmaker who seemed to have decided that her latest creative project was to make my life miserable. After the first few days I began to wonder if she had my demise storyboarded somewhere in the secret parts of the apartment that I wasn’t allowed to enter. Even our conversations sounded like dramatic movie fights. Once she took me into the kitchen to scold...
...While the class marshals may have known what they were getting, it seemed many of the seniors present...
...additional half-courses in the department or related fields), the traditional survey courses that are so fundamental to a background in historical study have a Western bias. The measly two weeks spent on European expansion and imperialism in History 10b: Western Economies, Societies and Polities from 1648 to the Present (this seems a little sparse considering the extreme force with which European “expansion” impacted the economics and politics of the modern world), require no readings from non-Western authors. Therefore, while students are free to study the works of colonized writers in departmental or upper...
...dared to challenge the present government, of which I was a part,” she said...