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...convenient to write off the Saturday evening deluge as nothing more than a gaggle of inebriated students ingesting alcohol in one place and then depositing it in another, but as the proverb goes, in vino veritas. There is more truth than meets the eye in this drunken tradition...
...Homi K. Bhabha. One House mistress is so cool that after entering a room filled with ganja smoke she said: “I don’t judge, I’m just here for a drink.” One junior girl brought new meaning to the proverb “make the system work for you.” Late one night she sent a text message to Porcellian Club initiates, demanding that they deliver 10 cases of Redbull and Marlboros to her apartment. The wise lady continued to place orders throughout the night, until the Porcs...
...proverb goes, Muhammad Yunus taught Bangladesh how to fish. Beginning only with $27, the 66-year-old former economics professor from Chittagong built an institution which uplifted impoverished millions in his country and, if you listen to him, portends the end of global poverty. His Grameen Bank-which is named after the Bengali word for "village"-extended credit to rural poor, empowering entire communities, and especially women, to work, earn income and improve the conditions of their lives. He spoke to TIME moments before hearing the news that he and the bank he founded had been awarded the 2006 Nobel...
...religious duty to aid Muslims who are being killed," says Sedaghat, whose car bears a sticker on the rear window that reads INSURED BY IMAM REZA (Shi'ite Islam's revered figure). "But reality is reality, and we can't afford it." He quotes a Persian proverb: "If the lantern is needed at home, donating it to the mosque is haram [forbidden...
...longa, vita brevis,”—life is short, art long—runs the ancient proverb. Ask artist Peter Smuts, whose show “The Human Pixel Project” is currently showing at Mather’s Three Columns Gallery, and he might tell you that life is pixelated, and art even more so.Smuts has assembled eight color-themed panels out of hundreds of two-inch square tiles. Each tile, however, is a work of art in its own right. Smuts started the project by sending out blank tiles to artists around the country...