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		<title>Core Journal Now Available!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/05/03/core-journal-now-available/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 21:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Spring 2013 Edition of the Core Curriculum Jounal is now available online, at bit.ly/1255au1 (click on Vol. XXII). Congratulations to the staff &#8211; you have done a fantastic job! If anyone would like a hard copy, feel free to send us your address at core@bu.edu and we will get to it!]]></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>
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		<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>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>
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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>Writers&#8217; Reasons For Reading</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/04/24/writers-reasons-for-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is where these great writers get their zest for reading: &#8220;Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant, and interesting.&#8221; Aldous Huxley &#8220;Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Maximal Meaning in Minimal Space: the History of Punctuation</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/04/22/maximal-meaning-in-minimal-space-the-history-of-punctuation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Core presents the original English version of an article that was published in the April 2013 issue of Hiatus, la revue. Here is an extract: Punctuation, as any dictionary will tell you, consists of the marks that dance around the letters of a text to mark clauses, sentences and inflection. What, though, is minimal punctuation? Is it in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Dickens met Dostoevsky</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/04/18/when-dickens-met-dostoevsky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relating to the studies of CC202 is an article by Eric Naiman discussing a supposed encounter between Dostoevsky and Dickens. Here is an extract: I have been teaching courses on Dostoevsky for over two decades, but I had never come across any mention of this encounter. Although Dostoevsky is known to have visited London for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salvador Dali: Dante’s Purgatorio</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/04/17/salvador-dali-dante%e2%80%99s-purgatorio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relating to CC102&#8242;s study of Dante&#8217;s Divine Comedy are illustrations made by Salvador Dali for Purgatorio. Here is a sample: For the full set of images, visit bit.ly/16MKCYi. To view Dali&#8217;s illustrations for Inferno, visit bit.ly/10jHp1E, and for Paradiso, visit bit.ly/17vAa9P.]]></description>
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		<title>Jane Austen: &#8216;Persuasion&#8217; vs &#8216;Emma&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/04/10/jane-austen-persuasion-vs-emma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In view of CC202&#8242;s intellectual dabbling in Jane Austen&#8217;s works, the Core presents an article that argues Emma is in certain ways better than Persuasion. Here is an extract: Published posthumously, it [Persuasion] has an almost skeletal feel, like an outline in which only the most salient points about each character are noted, as if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salvador Dali: Dante&#8217;s Inferno</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/04/05/salvador-dali-dantes-inferno/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relating to CC102&#8242;s study of Dante&#8217;s Divine Comedy are illustrations made by Salvador Dali for Inferno. Here is a sample: For the full set of images, visit bit.ly/14TfLgu. To view Dali’s illustrations for Purgatorio, visit bit.ly/17H3fQT, and for Paradiso, visit bit.ly/17vAa9P.]]></description>
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