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  The 33 BEST things to do in 2021. Kale Abrahamson Jan 4 Listen in podcast app Just going to make a list. Here goes nothing. Start a business. “Quit” your business (sell it) Calculate your  “LIVE off the INTEREST”  number (start with 4% of yearly income and divide that by 12 to get monthly interest) Buy some Bitcoin. Go on more walks. Stop doing 99% of what you currently do.  Focus only on the 1% of your actions that  actually move the needle.  Take some time to figure out what the “needle” is.  When you think you’ve found it (the “needle”), maybe stew on it for another 48 hours :) Drink more coffee. Or don’t. But make a conscious decision about it.  Become “fully there”.  DECIDE to give your loved ones ATTENTION, not just your TIME.  Stop eating a meal halfway through and leave because it sucks.  Stop watching a movie halfway through and change the channel, because it sucks.  Just close the zoom meeting. Just leave. Meetings ...

  Why Sheikh Hasina Is the Reason for the Rise of Islamists in Bangladesh One of the important reasons why these Islamists feel so emboldened is because the Hasina government has been soft on them. Arshad Alam 11 Dec 2020 Image Courtesy: asianage.com The birth of Bangladesh was the very antithesis of one religion, one nation principle. Against the quasi theological state of Pakistan, Bangladesh defined itself as a secular multicultural republic. The state, having no truck with religion, was to protect and enhance secular and liberal principles, and respect the right to dissent and democracy. It was an experiment lauded by the world community. Unfortunately, what we are witnessing today may be the unwinding of that experiment. It appears that Bangladesh is moving slowly but surely towards a polity which will be defined by Islamism.   The recent upsurge in anti-government demonstrations by the Hefazat e Islam, a conglomeration of religious interests, is a pointer that if not han...

   English Language and Literature: Faculty Publications 6-2018 Smith ScholarWorks English Language and Literature  Laughing with an Iranian American Woman: Firoozeh Dumas's Memoirs and the (Cross-) Cultural Work of Humor Ambreen Hai Smith College, ahai@smith.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.smith.edu/eng_facpubs Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Hai, Ambreen, "Laughing with an Iranian American Woman: Firoozeh Dumas's Memoirs and the (Cross-) Cultural Work of Humor" (2018). English Language and Literature: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA. https://scholarworks.smith.edu/eng_facpubs/7 This Article has been accepted for inclusion in English Language and Literature: Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of Smith ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact scholarworks@smith.edu     Laughing With an Iranian American Woman: Firoozeh Dumas’ Memoirs and the (Cro...