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...remain largely unconcerned. most say they remain unaware of the weekend’s burst of violent crime. “I didn’t hear anything,” Matthew C. Plaks ’13 said. One student, Lukas Strnad ’10, was unfazed upon hearing of the incidents because of their distance from campus. “If it were to happen on the street in Cambridge, I would be seriously worried. But unless it happens immediately around Cambridge I won’t get too concerned.” However, another student, Elizabeth...
...Fiction or reality?" Le Figaro asked in a headline alongside a November 1994 photo of a tuxedo-clad Giscard being gazed upon by a glowing Diana during a charity event. "Only the former President holds the key to this troubling story." So far, the former President isn't telling...
...Upon entering the art gallery of the Government Museum in Chennai, visitors are greeted by enormous portraits of various officers, presumably painted in India. I say presumably because British artists painted the portraits in British style. The people portrayed in these works all wear British clothing. Probably because they’re British. Apart from a vaguely Indian script in the corner of one painting and a barely visible Indian servant in the background of another, there is no reference to India at all whatsoever in this section of the museum...
...India can’t go back to what it was before colonization. Arguments about whether the country would be better off today if globalization hadn’t been forcefully thrust upon it are ultimately pointless. The real show of strength for India is not, as I once believed, to pretend that Western influence doesn’t exist, but to incorporate that influence, as Varma did, into a distinctly Indian story. For the first time in modern history, the world is listening...
...Upon entering the dining hall, notices warn students to use a clean plate each time one gets more food from the lines to avoid contamination. Too bad for those environmentally conscious friends trying to save resources and conserve water—in the game of swine-flu dodging, the Dudley Co-operative Society is surely at a disadvantage...