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Housemasters: Loving. Currently in their seventeenth year, Sandra and Leigh are among Harvard’s longest-tenured housemasters. Their monthly open houses (next one’s on housing day!) make you wonder how you ever endured Annenberg, with huge platters of sushi, dumplings, eggnog, brownies, chocolate-covered strawberries, and of course the famous monkeybread. Always around to offer a smile, the masters are such a fixture that the Mather mascot,* Leighdra the lion, bears their names...
...While current introductory courses survey British literature, the new curriculum will emphasize cross-cultural interaction. “Arrivals” focuses on cultures coming to England through the seventeenth century, while “Diffusions” covers the spread of the English language during the British Empire. The “Shakespeares” category will consider the playwright’s works in multiple contexts...
...Sarah Vowell warns early on in The Wordy Shipmates, "Readers who squirm at microscopic theological differences might be unsuited to read a book about seventeenth-century Christians." She's right, for despite some lively writing, much of her tale of the settlers who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony involves internecine Calvinist squabbling. Thankfully, Vowell, author of the sharply funny armchair histories Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, injects a bit of Technicolor into her portraits of the stereotypically drab colonists: feisty prefeminist Anne Hutchinson, semicrazed zealot Roger Williams and the colony's first governor, John Winthrop, who coined...
...places Theroux visits, and people he meets. In Bangalore, India, he comes across two guys, Vidiadhar and Vincent, who had managed one of the earliest call centers, among other things processing mortgages for an Australian finance company. Theroux sets up this section by noting that "in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Indian labour had been exploited for its cheapness. Coolie labour was the basis of the British Raj ... Again I recognized the paradox, that India's poor were its wealth...
...city's central park, the Tiergarten, and stretched toward the Brandenburg Gate, about a mile away, where Reagan had spoken. From where the presidential candidate stood, atop a stage onto which he had taken a long walk alone, he could see tens of thousands of people crowded onto the Seventeenth of June Boulevard, named for a 1953 uprising against the East German government...