10 great places to enjoy a textbook getaway As college students head off to school, college towns across the country some of them delightful destinations in their own right are poised for the onslaught of students and their families. Many of these towns leverage their geography as an attraction along with charm, dining, activities, high-caliber students and faculty, so you get the best of all worlds, ... have a real ability to keep the young and the young-at-heart engaged in culture and fun.
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We like to think of New York as the nation's most cosmopolitan city, a place in which the independence and freedom and values of art and culture are not questioned by anybody, as if that debate is over. But that debate is never really over, and Ground Zero is the perfect way to bring that debate back to the fore, even in New York.
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
A just-released study conducted by my Center for the Study of Popular Culture, and based on primary voter registration lists, shows that among 32 elite colleges and universities including the entire Ivy League, registered faculty Democrats outnumbered Republicans 10-1. At schools like Brown, Wellesley and Wesleyan the figure exceeded 25-1.
I've always been fascinated by the culture of India.
When you get into a different culture, for me, I was in shock. If I need to be productive in my job, I don't need to have these problems.
English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.
Don't you ever think that racism that has poisoned the bloodstream of religion, education, jurisprudence, politics, culture -- that it is not existent in FEMA and the Red Cross
Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.
He has a passion for football. .... He understands the culture of football.
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
We can accommodate all of the corporate jets out there. The market for an airport like this is the commercial passenger planes, commercial freight and also general aviation - usually piston-engine aircraft and jet traffic. We also have several military contracts with (United States) Customs, (the Department of) Homeland Security and all branches of the armed services.
I love Orlando, Florida, where we live, too, ... I love the people in the U.S. The sports are different there are no cricket scores in the newspaper. We don't talk the same language in sports. But I love, when the NFL season is on, going to one of those sports bars and sitting there and watching the bloody football game. I love it. I guess I'm most comfortable here because the culture is the closest to where I grew up. You know, the English used to rule us. When they left in '61, they didn't leave us a great plan.
This agreement does not end moral responsibility for the Holocaust. Nothing can erase the memory of those who died or the culture and potential achievements lost or the suffering of those who survived.
San Francisco is a classic bike town, and it is beloved by everybody. In our online reader poll, more readers chose San Francisco than any other city but Portland. There is a culture of cycling there are bike clubs, there's the messenger culture and there are long-standing community activities centered around cycling.
No, there is no guarantee, but there is somewhere between that and just throwing up your hands and there is nothing I can do. Rather than pointing fingers, we need to change the culture of the town.
I look at the culture of baseball and its influence on society and societys influence on baseball.
I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.
Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate. . .
A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.
Nothing was ever approved officially by anybody to the best of my knowledge that was not humane and in accordance with the Geneva Conventions,
It's made me aware of the culture of kidnapping here. Since our guys were abducted, there have been over 350 reported kidnappings in Iraq - that's internationals and Iraqis both - and that's just reported.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture. . .