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...People have been complaining about the demise of conversation at Harvard for decades. In 1935, Professor Andre Morize offered an explanation for why conversation wasn’t as good as it used to be: “People go to teas, and stand up all through them. You can’t talk well standing up.” Somehow, the problem seems more real...
...graduate of Tokyo University, like so many Japanese leaders, Yosano has some qualities that make him stand apart. As the grandson of well-known modern Romantic poets, he is virtually literary nobility. While his father was on assignment as a diplomat, the young Yosano received some of his schooling in Cairo, where he remembers being asked: what is it like to be a citizen of a defeated country? The sting of that question became the seed of his political career. After graduating with a law degree, Yosano worked five years for the Japan Atomic Power Co. before taking...
...Nick races with a new ferocity down the field. He sees plays seconds before everyone else, easily weaving himself between players and never rushing to the ball unless he is sure he can gain complete control of it. When Nick sees the need to stand back, he does; he doesn’t focus on where the ball is now but where it’s going...
...ayahuasca tourism has helped spark a revival, as guiding foreigners through the ceremonies can provide a decent income for shamans. The business has become so popular that at the airports in Iquitos and the Colombian Amazon city of Leticia, locals trying to drum up clients for freelance medicine men stand outside the terminals shouting "Ayahuasca! Ayahuasca...
...minute speech entitled “Blaming the Victims: The Last Stand of the Deregulators,” he accused anti-regulation Republicans of purposefully misplacing blame for the economic recession...