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		<title>“Teacher from Little Italy” by Angelo P. Bertocci</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/03/22/%e2%80%9cteacher-from-little-italy%e2%80%9d-by-angelo-p-bertocci/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Core presents some excerpts from Bertocci&#8217;s work: &#8220;When I went to the College of Liberal arts of Boston University I accepted its tradition on faith, that is, my friend Chapman&#8217;s faith and my faith in my friend. I somehow got the feeling that the spirit at Boston University was in tune with the mission, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Core Texts on Leadership</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/02/28/core-texts-on-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are samples from the Odyssey, the Aeneid, and Don Quixote on the topic of leadership: My child, what strange remarks you let escape you. Could I forget that kingly man, Odysseus? There is no mortal half so wise; no mortal gave so much to the lords of open sky. ~ The Odyssey, Book I, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Keats: &#8220;This Living Hand&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/01/31/john-keats-this-living-hand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bu.edu/core/?p=2045</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some spring semesters, CC202 studies the works of John Keats. Here is an interesting untitled fragment the Romantic poet scribbled in a margin: This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Semi-Serious Science Quote: CC105 from Fall 2012</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/01/28/semi-serious-science-quote-cc105-from-fall-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/01/28/semi-serious-science-quote-cc105-from-fall-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Core presents a quote on the death of stars: In the later red giant phase, the Core will shrink further and heat up to over 100 million Kelvin. ~Dr. Mark Jonas &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #176: Michel de Montaigne on Fear</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/01/16/michel-de-montaigne-on-fear/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/01/16/michel-de-montaigne-on-fear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Core wishes students and faculty a very fruitful and enjoyable New Year and semester, and welcomes everyone back to the trials and tribulations of intellectual life. To boost students&#8217; courage for the coming months, and instill some Core spirit, here is today&#8217;s analect: “A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.”]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #171: Life Ascending</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/12/05/analects-of-the-core-171-life-ascending/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/12/05/analects-of-the-core-171-life-ascending/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bu.edu/core/?p=1888</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Expanding further on the works studied in CC106, here is the next analect from Nick Lane&#8217;s Life Ascending: The Great Inventions of Evolution: We may not enjoy the fact much, but we&#8217;ve recognized since the early 1920&#8242;s that going moderately hungry prolongs life. It&#8217;s called calorie restriction. Rats fed a balanced diet, but with about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #170: Collapse</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/12/05/analects-of-the-core-170-collapse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a book that sometimes plays a part in CC106, Jared Diamond&#8217;s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, here is today&#8217;s analect: The Greenland Norse did succeed in creating a unique form of European society, and in surviving for 450 years as Europe&#8217;s most remote outpost. We modern Americans should not be too quick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lecture: Plato&#8217;s Republic</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/11/29/lecture-platos-republic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 20th, Professor Greg Fried (Suffolk University, Department of Philosophy), a long-time friend and colleague of the Core, lectured to the students of CC101 about Plato&#8217;s Republic. Here we offer an excerpt from his lecture: MORPHEUS: Do you want to know what it is, Neo? The Matrix is everywhere; it&#8217;s all around us, even now in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #168: The Odyssey</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/11/28/analects-of-the-core-168-the-odyssey/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/11/28/analects-of-the-core-168-the-odyssey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s analect from Paradise Lost can be contrasted with today&#8217;s choice: By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man— some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive— than rule down here over all the breathless dead. (The Odyssey, 11.556-8) &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of The Core # 167: John Milton&#8217;s Paradise Lost</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/11/27/analects-of-the-core-167-john-miltons-paradise-lost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Ricks lectured today on John Milton&#8217;s Paradise Lost. From this spawns today&#8217;s analect: “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n” (Paradise Lost, Book 1, 258-263). &#160;]]></description>
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