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		<title>Salvador Dali Show on View at Hillel</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/05/07/salvador-dali-show-on-view-at-hillel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 17:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relating to the Core&#8217;s study of the Old and New Testaments, is a fascinating series of lithographs from later in Salvador Dali&#8217;s career, titled Aliyah: The Rebirth of Israel, depicting the history of the Jewish people’s return to Israel. Here is an extract from BU Today&#8217;s article on the topic: While 250 copies of the Aliyahlithographs were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Core Journal Staff: Crunching Time</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/05/03/the-core-journal-staff-crunching-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 20:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bu.edu/core/?p=2521</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the final days before the Core Journal&#8217;s release, organized chaos took over the Core Curriculum&#8217;s office. Here are photos capturing our intellectual panic: &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Explaining Nietzsche and Existentialism to 5-Year-Olds</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/05/03/explaining-nietzsche-and-existentialism-to-5-year-olds/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/05/03/explaining-nietzsche-and-existentialism-to-5-year-olds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 20:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relating to CC202&#8242;s study of Friedrich Nietzsche is an excellent and amusing attempt to explain his existentialism to a group of 5-year-olds. Here is the video: For more information, visit bit.ly/108bPAL.]]></description>
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		<title>A Review of Christian Wiman&#8217;s Spiritual Autobiography</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/04/30/a-review-of-christian-wimans-spiritual-autobiography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his review of Christian Wiman&#8217;s spiritual autobiography, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer, Jay Parini discusses Wiman&#8217;s emphasis on the importance of faith to a critic. Here is an extract: It strikes me that criticism—systemic reflection on texts, even on life itself—has lost its urgency during the past 30 years or more, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Wilde in America</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/04/30/oscar-wilde-in-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his review of Roy Morris Jr.&#8217;s Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America, Justin Beplate discusses Oscar Wilde&#8217;s trip to America, and the lasting effect that it had on his writing and personality. Here is an excerpt: Wilde&#8217;s reception in America was uneven. If some were bemused by the colourful paraphernalia of aestheticism, others [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Review of Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s Letters</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/04/30/a-review-of-kurt-vonneguts-letters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Core presents a review of Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s Letters, by Keith Miller. Vonnegut is not a writer directly studied in Core classes, however, his influence on the literary world is worth examining. Here is an excerpt: Most of Vonnegut’s early writing is – despite his protestations about “genre-ism” – fairly easy to ghettoise as science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salvador Dali: Dante&#8217;s Paradiso</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/04/30/salvador-dali-dantes-paradiso/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relating to CC102′s study of Dante’s Divine Comedy are illustrations made by Salvador Dali for Paradiso. Here is a sample: For the full set of images, visit bit.ly/16iqVvI. To view Dali&#8217;s illustrations for Inferno, visit bit.ly/10jHp1E, and for Purgatorio, visit bit.ly/17H3fQT.]]></description>
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		<title>Criticism of &#8216;Jane Austen, Game Theorist&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/04/24/criticism-of-jane-austen-game-theorist/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/04/24/criticism-of-jane-austen-game-theorist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relating to CC202&#8242;s study of Jane Austen&#8217;s work is an article from Slate, in which Adelle Waldman gives her amusing criticism of a recent book that discusses Austen&#8217;s insight into human behavior. Here is an extract: Austen, it seems, has something to tell us. And not only us English majors. Mathematicians. Game theorists. Serious thinkers. Even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CC106 Information</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/04/23/cc106-information/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a list of important topics from lectures since CC106&#8242;s last exam (not including the April 16th lecture and those after). Important topics: Ecology Lectures I and II: Biomes and Physical Ecology: (Prof. Schnieder) Ecology as concept- Biotic vs. abiotic traits of environment- Biome vs. biogeographic region- Levels of biological organization- Physical geography vs. biogeography- [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annual Poetry Reading: Poetry&#8217;s Distant Voice</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/04/23/annual-poetry-reading-poetrys-distant-voice/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/04/23/annual-poetry-reading-poetrys-distant-voice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Core presents a &#8220;set of two poems, which are the same poem&#8221; as phrased by Zachary Bos, one of the respected speakers at the Annual Poetry Reading this year on April 16th. The theme of the reading was &#8220;Poetry&#8217;s Distant Voice&#8221;, and here is Zachary Bos&#8217; contribution: From The Book of Hours I, 36 MacDiarmid, [...]]]></description>
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