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overwhelm the teaching role. Currently I teach two courses, a freshman seminar on contemporary Indian society, and a course on modern Indian history and politics," she said. "Our sabbaticals enable us to refresh our research, take stock, and concentrate on creative projects in a way that is impossible while...
...YORK--Chances are, by now you've heard about the Central Park attacks during the Puerto Rican Day Parade--and probably forgotten about them too. Let me refresh your memory: Near the end of the June 11 parade, more than 50 women were sprayed with water, groped, robbed and in some cases sexually assaulted by a gang of men in a crowded Central Park in broad daylight, while police officers allegedly looked on and refused to help the victims...
...growth in long forms. Instead of subjects shifting nicely into levels of depth--here's the soundbite answer, here's a longer answer, here's the encyclopedia version--only the soundbite survives in circulation. It seems that our tolerance for information of all kinds has shrunk dramatically, demanding constant refresh and rarely holding still for the previously reductive 800-word form. (Have you really read this far in the column without skipping ahead or skimming...
...prison storyteller, the one who helped pass the days by retelling, scene by scene, his favorite Marlon Brando movies, who offered a course he called A History of the World from the Beginning, the one who was allowed 10 minutes with a Bible one Christmas so he could refresh his memory of Bethlehem and lead a service in their cell. But it was not until he was home, a famous, crippled war hero, that he met Ronald Reagan and learned from the master that he now had the ultimate political weapon...
...That song was an amazing experience, I enjoyed it a lot. Yuka does stuff also, playing with amazing jazz musicians, and Sean [Lennon, bassist and Honda's boyfriend] does his thing. These projects are like big presents for us I think, they refresh our minds. Then when we get together, we launch something new from all our experiences...