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When the 50-minute flight touches down, we cruise through the official formalities to find my girlfriend's xiao gugu, or little auntie, waiting for us. It's after 9 p.m. but Xiao Gugu, a high-school Chinese literature teacher and staunch epicure, has plotted out an evening of eating. (When flying to Taipei, don't bother touching a morsel on the plane.) We head to Liaoning Street in northeast Taipei where vendors famous for their seafood concoctions line the crowded alley. Xiao Gugu waves us over to a woman who is ladling taro batter onto a round grill...
Zinn spoke on “Writing about Emma Goldman” to about forty attendees at the Murray Center of the Radcliffe Institute as part of their Brown Bag Lunch Series last week. An anarchist and staunch feminist, Goldman herself is arguably more forgotten than she deserves, and mainstream accounts fail to portray the richness of her character. Zinn’s speech was filled with innumerable digressions—often self-deprecating asides tinged with his dry humor—designed to illuminate her life but shaped by his perspective...
...Cambridge Planning Board recommended last night that the city approve Harvard’s petition to cut a tunnel under Cambridge St. But the tunnel still has to overcome staunch opposition from the City Council before digging can begin...
First and foremost, Summers, like former President Neil L. Rudenstine before him, is and always has been a staunch supporter of diversity. He indicated as much in his inaugural address. West’s complaint was more over form than substance. West seems to have felt that Summers was just not vocal enough in expressing his support of diversity. On Jan. 2, Summers responded by making his views unequivocally and undeniably clear in a public statement...
Douthat has always stood apart from the crowd. As the sole Republican in a “staunch, hardline-Democrat family”, he formed his conservative worldview from an early age as “a way of rebelling against my parents?...