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...closer examination, the decision to help fund the Brian J. Honan Apartment Complex demonstrates a commendable institutional logic—and should be recognized as such by the student body. Of course, showing a financial commitment to help out your (significantly less well-off) neighbors is always noble, but it is important to see the wisdom as well as the generosity of Harvard’s move. By committing the University to help in the building process, Summers has provided local leaders with a strong indication that Harvard cares about the communities into which it is moving...
...Dave Matthews Band. And that fit pretty well. Bill Clinton was president, Saddam was a joke and Anthrax was a metal band. Afghanistan was a place where, in commercials, shepherds were using the Internet to improve business. The government was running an unheard-of surplus, and we were too well-off and peaceful to know what to do with ourselves. And Dave was there, with his stringy, barefoot exhortations to “eat, drink, and be merry” and to make the most of our “One Sweet World.” A new record appeared...
...shot at the sweet science. So in July 2000, he organized Capital Punishment, which pitted Londoners (among them a company director and a lawyer) against New Yorkers (a judge, a Wall Street banker). A crowd of 4,000 - friends, colleagues and lots of boxing aficionados perversely curious to see well-off white men go at it - turned up. The Real Fight Club was born. In the beginning, Lacey says he got maybe one new member per month. Now he claims six a day from around the U.K. The fights have grown from occasional to nearly every month, and are held...
...white planters came in their grateful droves, lured by the green hills and tolerable climate. Today, though, this is the domain of Indian agribusiness, and you'll barely see a non-Indian face. The only visitors tend to be from the big smoke of Mumbai or maybe Bangalore?mostly well-off families and couples on quality-time retreats...
Marjane Satrapi is a typical headstrong girl on the cusp of adolescence: she questions her teachers, her parents and her society. It just happens that society is a misogynistic theocracy. Persepolis (Pantheon; 153 pages) is Satrapi's memoir of growing up in a well-off progressive family in the wake of Iran's Islamic revolution. Marjane's mother tapes their windows (to guard against bombs) and covers them in black curtains (to guard against their devout neighbors' prying). Drawn in simple, bold lines with wide, inquisitive eyes, Marjane is precocious and passionate, and her small rebellions (sneaking a cigarette) mirror...