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...blind thing is certainly played for effect--just not the effect you might anticipate. Almost since their first meeting, in 1976 as students at Bamako's Institute for Young Blind People, Amadou and Mariam have billed themselves as the Blind Couple of Mali, and if the lack of an exclamation point reads as restraint, factor in that they often perform in diamond-studded sunglasses. Faced with a world that tends to view blindness and African-ness in tragic terms, Amadou Bagayoko (he plays a killer guitar) and Mariam Doumbia (she sings like an adoring aunt) go out of their...
...biggest grievance, personally, is that no one considers the flip side. While I have occasionally heard a stray Princeton girl or guy complain about a perceived lack of handsome men, I think I can count the number of times on one hand — while I’d need all the hands of the students in my Developmental Psych lecture (hint: it’s held in Friend 101, and people sit on the floor) to tally up the opposite grievance. What makes the boys think they’re any better than we are? Somehow...
...modern fascination with horror.“Defaced” is both well-written and accessible. Filled with visual aids, it serves as a comprehensive introduction for readers with no previous exposure to art history or medieval culture. Despite its qualities as a work of art history, however, it lacks credibility as a work of social theory. The book begins with a comment on a photograph of the mutilated body of an anonymous Haitian in Port au Prince in 1994. At the end of the book, Groebner revisits the framework of modernity with insights about the media driven obsession with...
...been active in preparing the event, but he left Harvard last year. “So we finally decided to just forgo the pi partying this time around and try again next year,” Elkies wrote in an e-mail from a conference in Florida. Despite the lack of festivities, the Math Department honored the day at its weekly forum held at Mather dining hall on Tuesday. Guest speaker Luke Anderson, a financial analyst for Harvard and the founder of TeachPi.org, discussed the historical fascination and what he called “modern pi fixation...
...still a lack of information? Is it burnout and a sense of hopelessness? Is it denial? Is it recklessness? We don't fully understand." -Voicing frustration at the persistence of risky sexual practices in New York City's adult establishments. (New York Times, April...