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...able to prepare our annual Thanksgiving feast and attend my little sister’s Bat Mitzvah. Although she has been sapped of her strength, she has not been robbed of her customary biting wit. I’ve heard her continue to tease my grandfather, as is her wont, but haven’t yet heard her complain...
Penn had dropped an ugly game at Columbia, while Princeton stormed from behind, as it is wont to do, to top Cornell in a double-overtime thriller...
...habit of making rubbish videos for fantastic songs. The New York art-punk trio’s newest video to single, “Gold Lion,” is a scorcher, in the literal sense. The band find themselves in a desert at night. And, as one is wont to do in a desert at night, they start a massive bonfire with their instruments while dust swirls around them in slow motion. Black-clad drummer Brian Chase somehow lights the fire by pounding on his snare drum, and waif-thin Nick Zinner strums, in a change of pace...
...Colonizers saw the land as a passive, indigenous woman open to the penetration of European men.” Colonial historians have an enduring fondness for imagery of rape, and to satiate it, there followed half a dozen such turns of phrase. And, as is academics’ wont, the concluding note was a call for more research on those native women who’d been woven into settler creation myths, so as “to move beyond Pocahontas.” Towards the end of the second hour of this, I discovered that this was merely Indigenous...
...History 10a, a broad introduction to Western history, counts for the same Core credit as a class on the Cuban Revolution. Additionally, many of these Cores treat non-Western subject matters. These two differences seem to pose a bit of an internal contradiction. More likely than not, your department wont let you graduate from Harvard without grounding you in the Western ideas that pertain to it, but outside of your department Harvard College will gladly hand a diploma to a history concentrator who studied Confucius in her Moral Reasoning Core...