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...against another colorful maverick, the incumbent Ken Livingstone, a wily and resilient left-winger who has introduced tolls for cars entering central London and is now promising to boost the capital's stock of affordable housing. Johnson has not yet revealed his own manifesto, but speaks of increased "financial rigor" and an admiration for the education policies of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He sums up his political philosophy in a pithy phrase: "less bossiness, more incentives," explaining, "I'm a libertarian. I think people should get on and run their lives as far as possible independently of bossiness...
...begun to reexamine its connection to the University, hiring more non-alums and focusing on covering current events rather than engaging in more theoretical debates. Yet however the magazine changes, editors and writers promise that “The Atlantic” will always retain the intellectual rigor of the institution where it grew...
...What about the Japanese aesthetic inspires you? I've always been inspired by the Asian aesthetic. On it's own, Japanese minimalism can be too severe, but there is a certain spirit, a rigor and a love of sophistication here that has always inspired me. I love the colors and the shapes you see in Japan...
...night. The question-and-answer session, sponsored by the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS) was attended by approximately 30 students. HIS President Shaheer A. Rizvi ’08 said he assumed conservative students declined to participate in Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week because they saw that there was no analytical rigor or credibility to the campaign. “‘Islamo-Fascism’ is not a term any academic would ever consider using. It creates an Islam-hate week,” Rizvi said. Despite its failure to gain widespread attention at Harvard, Horowitz said he considers this...
...didn't know what he was doing," says the NYPL's Isaac Gewirtz, who curated the show and wrote an accompanying book, Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road. "But he was a first-rate writer, and my hope is that a new generation will be taken by the rigor of his mind." It's all there in the scroll...