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...CRAVE HUMAN CONTACT" from Jan. 2 and a lengthier post on New Year’s Day ("as one chapter of loneliness closes, another vast empty year begins.... sad self-pitying existence") have both risen to the top of boredatlamont’s "week’s best" list. Other confessions—such as "I’m so depressed…I’m useless" from Jan 3rd—are dishearteningly frequent...
Meet Alison F. Richard—a British anthropologist who has risen to top posts in higher education on both sides of the Atlantic. She spent 30 years at Yale, including nearly nine as provost. And since 2003, she has served as head of John Harvard’s alma mater, the University of Cambridge...
...Another explanation is that the director has always been better at Crucifixions than at Resurrections. Just as the risen Christ seemed like something of a tack-on to The Passion, Mel may have little interest in how Christian culture might reconfigure either the peaceful village-dwellers' way of life or the bloodthirsty Mayans...
...that tells us, intuitively, that children need a mother and a father? Admittedly, that ideal is not always possible. Divorce, death, abandonment and unwed pregnancy have resulted in an ever growing number of single-parent families in this culture. We admire the millions of men and women who have risen to the challenge of parenting alone and are meeting their difficult responsibilities with courage and determination. Still, most of them, if asked, would say that raising children is a two-person job best accomplished by a mother and father...
...visible at an exhibition of European universities in New Delhi last week. Potential students flocked to the show, grilling exhibitors from Europe's traditional powers, such as France and Germany, but also eastern upstarts such as Hungary and Lithuania. The number of European universities offering courses in English has risen dramatically over the past few years, making them more attractive to Indian students. "The Europeans are welcoming Asian students," says Nidhi Mahajan who was manning the stand for the Graduate School of Automotive, Aeronautical, Space Craft and Marine Craft Engineering, based in Paris. "They've destroyed that barrier of language...