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...course, in “this empire,” the phrase he often uses to refer to America, this has proved to be no easy task. Which is where Prof. West??s pioneering pedagogical method comes in. “It’s what I call a danceable education or a singing paidea, the Greek word for deep education,” West said. The professor, then, is fully willing to pursue scholarship—just so long as he can sing and dance...
LOWELL, River West??The courtyards of Lowell are silent today after heavy fighting this afternoon, when a group of Winthropians became caught between two Dunster artillery emplacements at 1 p.m. By 5 p.m., every Winthropian was dead or dying, and the brigadier general commanding the Dunster forces ordered his men to kill the survivors. The Winthrop army raised a white flag at 2:30 p.m., but the time when the twelve Houses took prisoners is nothing more than a memory now, more than a week into the wildly well-attended war that engulfed the Harvard campus without warning...
Democratization is an enlightened ideal and the West??s reality, but it is only beneficial if individuals transcend apathy and get involved. Updating Jefferson to better fit our times, it is not about choosing between media and government, but about using democratized media to appropriately influence government...
...Snow,” the most recent novel of 2006 Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.Defying genre constraints, “Snow” is, on one hand, a depiction of the contemporary political realities of a country that geographically straddles the border between the East and West??a polity divided between a secularized, cosmopolitan bourgeois and a political Islamist provincial underclass. But on the other hand, it’s a cerebral reflection on love, happiness, faith, and the dazzling power of language to construct and re-construct the reality in which we live.“Snow?...
...ever encountered, and it encouraged me to read on. Predictably, though, the analysis soon turned into the sort of foolish optimism that Western governments have so perfected when talking about their own collapse, with the editors suggesting the possibility that we might in fact be witnessing not the West??s death but its “evolution” or, even better, its “rejuvenation...