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...music festival’s charade, but even in this bitter victory I felt no real satisfaction. Had I left for Bonnaroo expecting nothing more than music and a crowd and a psychedelics sunrise delivery man, I would not have been disappointed. As it was, I went expecting the world??s greatest music festival and, in the face of these expectations, the festival could only come up short. Even my relatively low expectations—for simple things, like relatively accurate show times—were frustrated when Kanye went onstage over an hour late...
...lifetime,” Harvard’s often-reserved economic experts did not mince words in describing the ongoing financial crisis that has seen the disappearance of three of the nation’s five major independent investment banks and the government rescue of one of the world??s largest insurers...
...together at Opening Ceremonies, watching the world??s best athletes huddle together under one roof (or rather, in one nest), I found myself feeling horribly inadequate. While thousands of surrounding spectators snapped photos and texted friends, I was deep in retrospection, asking myself, “What have you actually done with your life...
...with the ease of flight, not very long ago, direct trips from Africa to the Americas were essentially unheard of. This travel ease is a new phenomenon, preceded by centuries of a crueler sort of journey. The captivity and forced migration of Africans to the “new world?? via European slaving ships is by far the most tragic and important Atlantic crossing in world history. While the slaves transported are beginning to be the subjects of admirable academic inquiry, historical silence in Ghana is indicative of limits of discourse on the subject of Atlantic slavery...
...James P. Currier, founder and chairman of Medpedia—whose stated mission is to become the world??s largest collaborative online encyclopedia of medicine and health—has called upon faculty at the Medical School to lay the groundwork for the project...