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...money: "We are not supposed to want money. Materialism, we learn at a young age, is frowned upon. This attitude does not seem altogether compatible with a system of capitalism, but as a code to live by it is probably - and theoretically - an admirable way to go: do not do anything solely for money, and do not covet material goods for their own sake...Money can't buy happiness, they say, but if sailing a boat makes you happy, you need to be able to buy, or at least rent, a boat...
...sinful city of Mumbai, decrying its excess and materialism and corrosive foreign influences. The worldly aspirations of Mumbai's diverse millions, they said, would be cowed by a spectacle of fire and brimstone. In the immediate aftermath, the attackers appeared to have gotten their way. All hope did seem abandoned amid the din of public grief and fury with a government many felt incapable of protecting its people...
...Thai jails - a genre already as overcrowded as the prisons themselves. That Singapore publisher Monsoon Books feels there is room for one more - Nightmare in Bangkok by Andy Botts - begs two more questions. Why do so many foreigners get into trouble in Thailand? And why do so many tourists seem to enjoy reading about...
...take more electives and individually shape their course of study. Meanwhile, the classics department had its own massive overhaul, unanimously approving a proposal that would simplify concentration requirements to make the field more accessible to students who have not studied Latin or Greek in the past. But as concentrations seem to be becoming more open, the General Education program may be having the opposite effect. As faculty continues to make curricular changes, professors have noticed that fewer students have been taking electives—an unintended result of increased requirements and options like a secondary field...
...scholarship, so beyond the reach, certainly, of earnest, inept works like Good, which remains, like most such works, on the anecdotal fringe of the problem. In film, the Holocaust has become a topic addressed by journeymen writers (Good was adapted by John Wrathall) and directors who seem to think that the importance of the subject will enhance the inherent modesty of their own gifts. But this is not so; we emerge from their movies frustrated by their failures to grasp and shake our souls. I would like to propose a cinematic moratorium on this subject: a thoughtful silence, rich...