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...first-person pronoun I is a basic starting point: ego, je, ich, io, ya. In Japanese, where nothing is that simple, the word has two dozen or more forms, depending on who is talking, and to whom, and the social relationship between them. An elderly man might refer to himself as washi, but his wife would say watashi, or, for that matter, atakushi, or atashi; their daughter might say atai and their son boku. Then there is temae, which means both you and I. But the Japanese often evade these social difficulties by dropping all pronouns entirely...
Although opera and ballet have yet to take firm hold, visiting companies invariably draw large audiences. At year's end, there are so many performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony that people refer to the annual flood as "Ninth pollution." During the 1982 holiday season it was performed some 100 times across the country. By any standard, it seems, Western classical music is thriving in Japan, as much a part of the culture today as the ancient lutes and zithers...
...danger of formal education eclipsing real life was personified for me during my first year back by a trio of graduate students whom I shall refer to as the Three Blind Mice...
Most disciplinary cases are handled by the Dean's Council, which can refer cases to the Board in special situations where expelling the student is a strong possibility Last year. Flick, said, the Ad Board handled two cases, and neither resulted in withdrawal...
...there are not yet any statistics from the survey and secondly, because Dean Marilyn Lewis has never claimed that the figures compiled by her office represent the extent of the problem of sexual harassment at Harvard. Furthermore, at this stage, it is misleading (as we pointed out) even to refer to "cases" of harassment as the behaviors described on a survey may be considered quite minor, and not sexual harassment, by the respondent. As of yet, we have no way of determining what constitutes a "case" of harassment. Therefore to say the survey shows that "most cases go unreported...