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William Lee’s hair was gelled into a mohawk, and he wore a purple velvet tie with his black suit. He projected a photo of Jackie Chan in the Emerson lecture hall, and asked, “What’s the first word that comes to your mind?” The dating coach and editor of BetterAsianMan.com led a discussion about Asian male sexuality to about 20 Asian Harvard students Saturday afternoon in an event sponsored by the Taiwanese Cultural Society. Lee first divided the participants by gender, and then asked women to sit in front...
...really involves the audience,” he said. “They’re on top of every word she’s saying...
...second set, and that proved to be the difference. “They played really well, but not consistent enough,” Fish said. “They weren’t really outdone; they just were out-consistent-ed, if that’s a real word, by teams that generally see that level of play more than we do.” As for singles, Clayton lost 6-4, 6-0 Thursday in his first round singles match against Wake Forest’s Cory Parr. Clayton never truly hit his stride in his opening match, unable...
...fatwa - now more or less lifted - did not sour Rushdie from his conviction that religion is necessary to writers, if only because it provides the only available language on certain topics. "I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words," he said. "For instance, 'soul." I don't believe in an afterlife or heaven or hell, yet there isn't a secular word for that feeling that we are not only flesh and blood. Whether you're religious or not you may find yourself obliged...
...fiction around precisely that historical process. But in some ways historical research is more threatening than invention. "There is so much contemporary scholarship about the origins of Islam," Rushdie said, pointing out that Mohammed lived well within the historical era. "If you insist that the text is the uncreated word of God, then the social and economic conditions of the Arabian peninsula in the seventh century are unimportant, because God works on a broader canvas than that. If, however, you are willing to look at the text as an event inside the history of the period, it illuminates the text...