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...Bridie, what about you? How do you make sure life and fiction remain separate...
...obsession. In a place with a host of academic resources waiting to be tapped and professors who are giants in their fields at one’s disposal, I could be devoting my time to learning about something more consequential than sports. While many of my peers at Harvard remain casual fans, most have already kicked sports down several notches on their list of priorities. But I am stuck in that wonderland of my youth, where my grandfather still brings home the New York Post every day and I, rather than explore issues of national importance like the death...
This phenomenon, in the end, is what should trouble those of who believe Harvard must remain an unapologetically American institution. The new general education requirement is welcome, but unless it can help reverse the steady trend toward post-nationalism on campus, it may well prove fruitless. In that case, students lacking an affinity for America should not be surprised if they find, upon leaving Harvard, that America lacks an affinity for them...
...Several other questions remain unanswered. At one point, the two hour gap between two fatal incidents on Monday led to theorizing that more than one gunman may be involved. The gunman who shot and killed at least 30 people at Norris Hall shortly after 9 a.m. was described by some sources as an Asian man. He apparently killed himself at the end of the rampage, shooting off half of his face and thus preventing law enforcement officers from making an immediate identification. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that a 24-year old student from China is person of interest...
...This Indian version of America's "culture wars" is at a much earlier stage than its U.S. equivalent. The upper middle class that Kakar says is finally becoming "free from the sexual conservatism of the past" is still quite small, especially in comparison with the hundreds of millions who remain culturally conservative, if markedly less strident than the Hindu hard-liners Indian newspapers dub "the moral brigade...