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Against all odds, I found my literary heaven in Jamaica, England, and India on an all-American road trip. I normally adhere to the principle that for sanity’s sake, it’s best not to read for pleasure the literature you study. But I violated my own rule this summer when—as a postcolonial history and literature concentrator—I read, and enjoyed, some popular postcolonial lit.I don’t normally like reading postcolonial novels tailored for popular consumption—probably because I feel like I’ve overdosed...
...Perhaps the most important issue is that this idea of service is inherently nationalistic. What its advocates desire is not service for its own sake, but service as a way to strengthen people’s ties to their government. Rick Stengel, the managing editor of Time magazine, lamented in an article last year in Time that volunteer rates are higher than they have ever been. Why is this a problem? Because it accompanies record low confidence in democracy and the American government. His concern is that “[p]eople see volunteering not as a form of public...
...administration’s work in combating AIDS in Africa and in supporting minority home ownership and faith-based poverty initiatives. “The Party has completely lost its way and, like most people in my generation, has become so focused on power for power’s sake, re-election for re-election’s sake, that it has collectively forgotten that our government is of the people, by the people, and for the people,” Bush said. Republican Club President Colin J. Motley ’10 echoed Bush’s frustration with...
...Shanghai - is attached to Hélene's country home as much as Frédéric is; both want to sell the place and the valuable paintings and furniture in it. Frédéric has to decide whether to swallow his rancor for the sake of family amity, or fight with the others to keep what he always assumed would be his mother's monument and his perennial summerhouse...
...Michael Wolff reports in the current Vanity Fair that Obama's rapprochement with Fox happened after an air-clearing meeting with Rupert Murdoch and Fox News chief Roger Ailes. And it's about time. For God's sake, if you think it's in America's interest to speak to international adversaries, you ought to be able to sit down with a guy whose TV show you don't like...