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...Unlike many of its neighbors, Nepal was never colonized by the English or their language, but Upadhyay is hardly operating in a cultural vacuum. One of the first Nepali writers to publish fiction in the West, he has been called the "Buddhist Chekhov." He's not Anton Chekhov, but he is Buddhist, and the influence of the religion?observant, detached, cyclical?is richly apparent. Cycles are everywhere. Ramchandra's passion waxes and wanes. Even as he descends into recrimination, he sees his maturing teenage daughter succumbing to the same dangerous passion that undid him, and he is powerless to stop...
...have a right to have our interests acknowledged and protected. This is not just about getting better benefits, or being paid more. The point of looking up from our books or our microscopes once in a while is to remind ourselves that we do not exist in an academic vacuum. Listening to each other, and learning how we can work together to benefit both ourselves and the academic community of this University are critical not only to our professional development, but to our personal growth as well. We must, in effect, get over ourselves in order to get ahead. Whether...
...done." He likes to play practical jokes, such as issuing a press release on April Fool's Day stating that there was, in fact, no Craig. And he's proudest of the "random acts of kindness" he often sees on the site, such as the woman who offered her vacuum cleaner to a public school or the British immigrant who gave someone advice on securing a work visa...
...predict. About the same time that Schrodinger unleashed his quantum cat, the British mathematician Alan Turing was sketching out the theory of the modern digital computer. A decade later, during World War II, Turing was helping program Colossus, a room-size electronic calculating machine that used 1,800 vacuum tubes to crack German codes. The abstraction had become real...
Luckily, the scantily-clad-male-undergraduate-calendar vacuum need not remain vacant for long. As in so many other fields, from football to academics, Harvard undergraduates can here succeed where their New Haven brethren have failed. And in this economic environment, Harvard charitable efforts would benefit from the proceeds. A call for nude volunteers will encourage commitment-shy Harvard students to finally commit themselves to charitable endeavors—body and soul...