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...Journalist Paul Starobin has written, “To be a Russian, or at least to be a proud, historically attuned Russian like Putin, is to feel both a certain suspicion of and a certain resentment toward the West.” Was this true when you were in Moscow and is it true today...
...Rosalind,” by William Shakespeare, to take one example, was. Some of the poems were about celebrities Like fans’ odes to Batman and Miley and Britney. In the field of bad poetry Randall Johnson’s name is big: He’s the proud author of “You Raped My Pig.” John Galligan, one of the event’s co-curators; Said there were two types bad enough to be read in theaters. One type, he said, toward ambitious themes crept, But was “crippled...
...Harvard Law School professor who served as chief counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee when Kennedy was chair, spoke about what he had learned working for the Massachusetts senator. Breyer described Kennedy’s strong commitments to bipartisanship and helping others.“I’m proud to be here as Harvard says ‘Well done, senator, and thank you for caring about so many, so much, for so long,” Breyer said.Cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76, who performed with pianist Charlie Albright ’11, saluted the senator...
Mumbai has always been proud of its resilience, but there is a profound sense that the city will not recover as quickly as it did after the blasts of 2003 or the train attacks of 2006. Ashish Contractor, a doctor who lives in Colaba, near Nariman House, explained that this week's attacks brought terror into the lives of Mumbai's most privileged, those who always thought of South Mumbai as an oasis from the rest of the city. "This is a totally different segment which always thought of itself as immune," he says. "Everybody in South Mumbai knows somebody...
...Proud to Be ... You and Me Pico Iyer's essay in which he says the U.S. needs to be "in tune" with the rest of the world was quite apt [Nov. 17]. A little over a month ago, while my family and I were having dinner in Coullier, France, and discussing the upcoming election, a British woman overheard us, and very seriously she told us, "The whole world is watching." I regarded the statement as a little overdramatic until I saw how the international community reacted when Obama was elected. I now look back on that night in France...