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‘The Museum of Eterna’s Novel’ is a meta-novel that goes so deep into the swirl of metas that it loses itself, its characters, and us in the process. And yet it is all about the relationship between reader and author, and...

Author: By Elizabeth D. Pyjov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fernández Creates a Literary Wonderland in ‘Museum’ | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

Harvard’s Task Force on General Education declared in its report in 2007 that “the aim of a liberal arts education is to unsettle presumptions, to defamiliarize the familiar, to disorient young people and to help them find ways to reorient themselves.?...

Author: By Maia Usui | Title: Lost and Found | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

In the closing scenes of Jean-Luc Godard’s “Le Mépris,” Camille—played by the iconic sixties starlet Brigitte Bardot—abandons her husband for the narcissistic, almost ghoulish American film producer Jeremy Prokosch, played by Jack...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Wave But Old Fave | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

The hallmark of a Harvard education, it is argued, is its commitment to a liberal arts curriculum—one that is not wedded to preprofessional or vocational utility, but the development of the well-rounded individual. In the words of the Final Report of the Task Force on General...

Author: By Ramya Parthasarathy | Title: The Magic of Numbers | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

The Shwedagon's eastern gate is locked and guarded by soldiers and riot police, who are confronted by hundreds of angry monks and students. It is around noon, and the battle for the Shwedagon is about to begin. There are explosions--of smoke bombs, meant to shock and disorient--and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy Of a Failed Revolution | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

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