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...College’s athletic div. 11 President’s tacit rejection 12 Set up 13 Rapper Sean Combs’ alias from 2001-2005 18 Former Marlins pitcher ___ Nen 22 Up, in a sense 25 Ye ___ shoppe 26 Goes in haste 27 Author Umberto 29 Tease 30 Tokyo??s former name 31 Source of many a boring lecture 32 Uber 33 Showed amazement, as at a firework display 38 Biblical question 39 Tennis great Sampras 40 Sounds of content 41 And so on, briefly 42 Abbr. in two U.S. state names 44 Super Bowl group: Abbr...
...course, the mayor isn’t exactly right, as anti-Japanese riots erupted in China last month. Organized largely by technologically savvy young people, the protests reflect the intersection of cultural history, geopolitics, and international trade. Anger at textbooks sanitizing Japanese war crimes and at Tokyo??s campaign for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council spur violent looting that targets Japanese businesses and products...
Students leaving foreign locales for Cambridge have long dealt with a disappointing drop in the number of transportation options open to them. Tokyo??s longtime bullet-train commuters clamber drearily onto the unreliable T, while quaint Europeans enthused of the unicycle are frowned at by our city’s hard-headed pedestrians. And then there are those from even more exotic climes like that of, well, the rest of the urban United States, who discover that on the tortured “grid” of metropolitan Boston, taxicab rides are ever-unfolding, decidedly meta Borgesian enigmas...
...stood in line at the Coop, bracing myself for the bi-annual ordeal known as buying books, my friend jokingly suggested that I, having been born and raised in Tokyo, could take the class Foreign Cultures 84, “Tokyo?? to fulfill my Foreign Cultures Core requirement. Considering the irony of this facetious proposal, I quickly noticed the Asian boy in front of me cradling a stack of books all bearing the word “China” in their titles. After casually striking up a conversation with him, I learned that he wanted to take...
...critical to understanding both the functionality of buildings and the composition of urban areas. A class I took at the GSD focused on the theories of Jurgen Habermas and Hannah Arendt and their application to built space/public space (Moral Reasoning). In Foreign Cultures, there is currently a course called Tokyo??enough said. Literature and Arts A is intended to get students to focus on texts and textual analysis; in architecture, buildings are often treated like texts and analyzed as such (Jacques Derrida is an oft-cited thinker). Literature and Arts B focuses on non-literary expression and currently...