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...found Herodotus good company. Travels is actually two interwoven stories: Kapuscinski's account of working in India, China, Egypt, Sudan, Congo and Ethiopia; and Herodotus' colorful observations on customs and conflicts in the equally exotic lands he visited. (Like Kapuscinski, he was accused of exaggerating for effect.) From Herodotus, Kapuscinski says he learned that "each culture requires acceptance and understanding, and that to understand it one must first come to know...
...fairly omnivorous I guess. Hmm? what is by the bedside? I am re-reading Christopher Hitchen's book on God, because I am going to be on stage talking to him about it. I have been reading some history too. I think all reading eventually it does have an effect, but not a direct effect on what I eventually do. Something I think I am reading haphazardly and then realize what I was doing was researching and sometimes the material does grow out of the reading or the reading is an expression of what is on my mind...
This favorable situation led Harvard last fall to eliminate its early admission program and move to a single application deadline of January 1. The change, which builds on Harvard’s efforts over the past several years to expand financial aid and increase openness in admissions, takes effect for students applying this fall...
...same time, Bok and Knowles, colleagues of 34 years, had a rehabilitating effect on a fractured University...
...Along with lots of other events of the spring, including new scientific reports and a landmark Supreme Court ruling, it had its effect: All of the leading Democratic presidential contenders have now endorsed our call for 80 percent cuts in carbon emissions by 2050. We’ve moved the bar a little...