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...focused. Though multiple survey courses on Western (meaning European) history, intellectual thought, and art are offered, an equivalent for other parts of the world is nowhere to be found. Despite research centers as far as Mumbai and Harvard’s claims to be an international institution, an odd whiff of Eurocentrism still wafts through the Cambridge air.Of course, concerns about the responses to globalization and multiculturalism in the academy are not novel. In fact, this year’s General Education program was originally conceived as an antidote to the university’s increasingly specialized core curriculum offerings...
...essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, writing in 1856, captured a persistent truth about the Englishman: "Born in a harsh and wet climate, which keeps him indoors whenever he is at rest ... he dearly loves his house." Little has changed since then; the English still lavish attention on their homes. Any whiff of news about the U.K.'s housing market is enough to make the front pages. When British TV channels aren't airing advice on buying or selling homes, they're offering lessons on how to do them up. "Domesticity," Emerson noted, "is the taproot which enables the nation to branch...
...That anger is flowing in communities across the disaster zone. While the overall death toll has passed 21,500 and is expected to climb as high as 50,000, there is special tragedy - and perhaps a whiff of scandal - in the number of young people who died in collapsed schools. Communities like Juyuan have had an entire generation of young people wiped out. In the nearby city of Dujiangyan, more than 300 students were killed when the Xinjian Elementary School collapsed. Sixty miles away in the mountainside town of Hanwang, the scene repeated itself at the Dongqi Middle School, where...
...while the upcoming primaries in West Virginia and Kentucky will undoubtedly test the resolve of pundits whose eulogies for the Clinton campaign can be undone by the whiff of "momentum," we've already seen the final round. And while Barack Obama's 14-point victory in North Carolina - a big state that he was nonetheless expected to win - was decisive, it was his close loss in Indiana that revealed the trends that have brought the Democratic presidential campaign near to a close...
...world got a pungent whiff of how Italy's public life has decayed when the southern city of Naples was buried under block-long piles of trash last December. But here's another image from the south of Italy: two men in a three-wheeled mini Piaggio garbage truck puttering along the narrow cobblestone streets in the small coastal town of Amendolara, picking up neatly placed bags of refuse for recycling. While the Neapolitans were fuming over the corruption and political spinelessness that elevated their trash woes to iconic significance, a door-to-door pickup scheme was successfully encouraging...