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...imperial resources or the imperial language. Even efforts such as the postcolonial field of study offered by the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature may be ultimately harmful: The notion that there can be some sort of cultural solidarity among incredibly diverse peoples simply by virtue of the sad, shared historical fact of Western domination threatens to muffle unique histories and re-deposit historiographic agency in the hands of Western intellectuals and Western institutions...
...Commentators on the state of undergraduate education at Harvard frequently bemoan the slow, sad deterioration of the Faculty’s role in governing their ostensible charges. As Masters of Education have replaced Doctors of Philosophy in positions of College governance, the argument goes, Harvard has slowly abdicated its proper place as its students’ matron and guide. Bread and circuses have supplanted education and virtue. The end is nigh...
While some might say the social importance of a weekly sitcom is limited. M*A*S*H earned a cult prominence and then a social significance that guaranteed it more than a sitcom’s respect. Colonel Blake’s sad departure, Trapper’s hasty exit, and Radar’s return to Otumwa, Iowa prompted mourning and drunken reflection from avid viewers nationwide. M*A*S*H’s final episode, not surprisingly, became a national phenomenon, and we join the rest of the nation and the host of last-episode partiers in saying...
...Ressler: That we're still at the point where only some employers are allowing people to change the time they come and go from work is extremely sad. People are adults. Employers are hiring people over 18 who have brains and can make their own decisions about time. Letting them make the choice between leaving at 5 or 5:30 is extremely paternalistic. It's a joke, and the joke...
...Maoists. Human-rights groups say the special police officers use many of the same tactics as the Naxalites, including extrajudicial killings. The Salwa Judum movement has also forced at least 60,000 people out of their villages (to prevent the Naxalites from recruiting them) and into temporary camps: sad, cramped settlements that are quickly taking on the air of permanence...