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...Looking back, I would love to pretend that my life changed after my chance encounter with the Vietnamese live-animal market. But it didn’t. In my mind, vegetarianism remained the preserve of health-obsessed teenage girls and animal rights the territory of self-righteous former hippies. Being neither, I returned to New Zealand and continued attending meat-filled barbeques at weekend rugby games...
It’s no surprise that for Carpio, a self-professed “hodgepodge” of ethnicities, understanding race and culture are a crucial part of academic work as well. In 2008, Oxford University Press published her book, “Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery...
...during a video chat? I don’t like it when intruders pop into the image on the other end, just to say “Hi!” or wave and remark how cool video chatting is because they can see themselves wave in the self-reflection. First of all, why is that so cool? And b) of all, get out of my conversation. Even worse: someone could be watching the video chat from beyond the frame, unbeknownst to you. You’re too busy looking at the image of yourself in the corner, discovering...
...Banana as his first step toward the laudable goal of a liberal education. Over the next four years, he will also sign up for The World in 1776, The Images of Alexander the Great, Revolution and Reaction: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Avant-Garde, Confucian Humanism: Self-Cultivation and Moral Community, and Dinosaurs and Their Relatives. These courses, claim the venerable Harvard College administrators, will liberalize an otherwise parochial course load...
...food samples including chilled honeydew melon soup from Henrietta’s Table and chips, salsa, and guacamole from Chipotle. Nantucket Nectars—a beverage company based in Nantucket, Mass.—gave out samples of all-natural fruit juices. Wainwright Bank & Trust Company—a self-proclaimed socially-progressive bank with branches throughout Boston—was present to inform visitors about the bank’s green practices and to open new accounts. The Harvard Square branch on Brattle Street—which has bamboo flooring, low-flow faucets and toilets, and low-energy heating...