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...shares a compound with the Mysore Mandala Yogashala. Just before sundown, a batch of eight students - all foreigners - are beginning their evening session with a Sanskrit mantra invoking Patanjali, the sage who compiled the Yoga Sutras, expounding ashtanga, or eight-limbed, yoga philosophy. The room is dimly lit and already slightly clammy when the students begin huffing and puffing their way through ten repetitions of surya namaskara, or sun salutation, the opening asana. Within a few minutes, their bodies are glistening with sweat as they flex themselves into scary positions, sometimes tugged and pushed by the teacher, all apparently impervious...
Hidden beneath the numerous cards, tickets, and to-do lists stuffed in my wallet, taped onto your refrigerator above that painting from second grade, buried beneath papers in some drawer, are sage pieces of advice with a humble origin: a bite-sized baked cookie. These small cookies, however, have quite a big story. In “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food,” Jennifer 8. Lee ’98-’99, a New York Times Reporter, embarks on a journey that bridges many centuries, many countries, many people...
...focus areas targeted by the ongoing strategic planning process that Flier launched last fall, soon after becoming dean last summer. Student debt has been identified as one of the Medical School’s top priorities by groups such as the Strategic Advisory Group on Education (SAGE), one of the committees formed last fall under Flier’s planning process, and the school’s Program in Medical Education...
...SAGE was charged with looking at the future of HMS education,” SAGE chair Thomas M. Michel ’77 said. “One of the topics that we explored was the issue of medical student debt and its influence on career choice...
...deserves the ridicule it gets. But not this time. Instead of the typical jokes about Flori-duh, the Sunshine State debacle currently gripping the Democratic Party has evoked reminders of the Dean Scream - the notorious petulance of Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Howard Dean. He, along with the other sage bosses of the DNC, has left Democratic voters in what is arguably the nation's most crucial swing state feeling dissed, disenfranchised and, it now seems, disinclined to back whomever the Democratic candidate is in November. And that could harm the party's White House bid as severely...