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...Ever wonder what your fellow freshmen are doing all dressed up on Tuesday nights? It’s because Tuesdays are Dressy Tuesdays! You have to eat, so why not eat in style...
...growing guy into the back of an already full car? It's a question to which any answer suggests expanding discomfort. And in the eyes of many in Beijing, the car isn't running so well anyway. Might it not be better, Chinese wonder, to redesign it? Some of the questions China has started asking about the world system are ones we should be asking too. This isn't to say we should give in to China's sometimes unreasonable demands. But we should admit that our real challenge isn't making room for China. It's thinking about...
...Little wonder, then, to find most Chinese still very alive to sensations of weakness, whether inside or outside the country. This was surely the worry that the Chinese media fingered when they declared that the 2009 phrase of the year was beishidai, or "the passive-voice era." The phrase, state-run Xinhua news later explained, "is being employed by Chinese to express a sentiment deeper than just the passive voice: they are using it to convey a sense of helplessness in deciding one's own fate." There's a sharp edge to this phrase's popularity, since it was first...
Although each nice day sporadically spaced amidst rain and cool weather might make us wonder what we’re missing, the weather at Harvard is really the best thing for us. October through April showers bring perfect overachievers—along with May flowers...
...instance, you meet somebody who has been spending the last three years trying to find if a protein folds this way or that way,” Knep says. “And after a while they figure it out and publish it—but all the wonder and excitement has been sucked out of them...