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Indeed, Lebanon has a long and unhappy tradition of being the battleground for competing foreign powers. Lebanese political bosses accept the support of foreign patrons to gain extra leverage against domestic rivals, while regional powers use their proxies in Lebanon to fight their own battles. It is a symbiotic relationship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Player in the Middle East | 12/2/2007 | See Source »

As a sequel to the “Night at the Fogg Museum” event, held earlier this year, the Organization of Undergraduate Representatives for Harvard University Art Museums (OUR HUAM) will present “Night at the Sackler Museum” on Dec. 6. Togas are optional...

Author: By Jenny J. Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Group Goes Greek at the Sackler | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

No translator was needed between Azerbaijani singer Alim Qasimov and the rest of the Silk Road Ensemble once they began playing together. When Qasimov, wanted to cue the other musicians to add new segments, he would mimic the motion of playing an instrument, and together the ensemble began smoothing the...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Why Did the Cellist Cross the Silk Road? | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

He speaks for the 19th-century Romantic tradition where the hero, introspective and melancholy, consciously discards social conventions and, in doing so, sometimes even gains greater power over other people.

Author: By Sahil K. Mahtani | Title: Wind, Sand, and Stars | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

In America today, William Langewiesche is one of the few heirs of the solitary wanderlust tradition. He is also the best, fashioning himself as a modern day Hemingway-cum-Indiana Jones. Perusing short biographies of him, I find they do not mention his stint at Stanford as an undergraduate, as...

Author: By Sahil K. Mahtani | Title: Wind, Sand, and Stars | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

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