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However, in “The Ruling Caste,” David Gilmour, constructs a portrait of India that is far different from those found in other works. As opposed to focusing on the lives of the Indians, Gilmour looks to the few thousand British civil servants who, for about a century, were in charge of running a country of over 300 million people...
...Francisco because of Boston’s weak ground, not because of subterranean tectonic activity. Eva E. Zanzerkia ’97, an associate program director in the National Science Foundation’s division of earth sciences, found in research done at Harvard that Boston’s thousand acres of man-made fill and river basins actually amplify seismic waves. According to Zanzerkia’s research, earthquake shocks that enter this softer ground become trapped and echo around the area rather than slowing to a stop as in hard bedrock. As a result, the force...
After a few thousand years, the jury is still out. As Jews are midway through observing the holiday of Passover, famed defense attorney and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz faced off against Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris in a mock trial of Pharaoh last night. The two men debated Pharaoh’s guilt on charges of persecuting and enslaving the Jews and attempted genocide but neither side won. Harris, who teaches Moral Reasoning 54, “‘If There Is No God, Then All Is Permitted,’: Theism...
...That much, I think, is a personal choice, but it’s one we should know that we’re making. We’re just coming to terms with the idea of the Internet as a megaphone, taking the things we say and making them ten thousand times louder, capable of being heard around the world. A poorly worded letter to the editor or a heat-of-the-moment, too-ambitious argument on a mailing list can shut the door on a nascent political career. That it’s a megaphone in time as well...
...Yiyun Li is author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and an assistant professor at Mills College in Oakland, California