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Currently reading: I think one (semi-)professional book, say, something about the sacrifice of women in Greek drama and also a novel, perhaps Süsskind’s Das Parfüm (in German...
...watching the India-Pakistan match, perhaps the most hyped of the entire tournament. An Indian flag has been placed on top of the VCR, indicating the loyalties of most gathered here. “All the Pakistanis must be watching it somewhere else,” says Sanmay Das ’01, a grad student...
...Suite is modeled on Mao's library and bedroom, where he received most of his visitors. The bookshelf above the antique bed is stacked with the Great Helmsman's favorites: Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Lo Kuan-chung's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Karl Marx's Das Kapital and several treatises on Chinese political philosophy. Instead of a Bible on the bedside table, there is a stack of Little Red Books. Photographs of Mao's various wives and mistresses adorn the coffee table. And, yes, there is even a Mao alarm clock...
...piano for a while, then start making and selling pizzas out of your host's kitchen. In the trial beta version of the game, which currently has around 35,000 participants, Wright plays a Sim who is the proprietor of a lounge located in a submarine. It's called Das Love Boat (he describes it, not very helpfully, as "a German U-boat with a romantic-comedy theme...
...women: do they get to talk? Yes, and when they do a small smile plays on their faces, as if they know that their matters of the heart will create more joy and crush more souls than "Das Kapital." Yes, their coquettery and evasions can exasperate men looking for an unequivocal answer to riddles of life and love. And when men have triumphed in their arguments with women, the women play their ace: they say, as Molly Bloom did, "Yes." This is the last word of the first and third "Utopia" plays; in each case it is spoken indulgently...