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...address to more than 400 people at the Institute of Politics' ARCO Forum, Richardson--who is the first Hispanic to serve in a foreign policy cabinet position--focused on "the need for the United States to finally pay our outstanding dues to [the United Nations...
Morrison has argued for years that stories and storytelling convey information, necessary information, available nowhere else. She made this case again in her Nobel Prize address: "The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers. Although its poise is sometimes in displacing experience, it is not a substitute for it. It arcs toward the place where meaning may lie." To read Morrison as an allegorist or a sloganeer is to overlook completely the power...
Scientists say the worst-case scenarios resulting from global warming are more violent storms and increased flooding. In the past two years in Canada alone there have been two major floods that may have been the result of global-warming patterns. Governments should take steps to address the global-warming issue to avoid more floods and storms. In the U.S., Florida lowlands could end up underwater because of rising sea levels. I hope Mickey Mouse can swim. SHAMEER RAVJI Kanata...
Harvard students who want kegs delivered to their rooms will have to update their address books. Blanchard's Liquors of Allston, an establishment popular among area college students, is no longer in the keg delivery business...
...never know exactly what happened here, and so I address only what's been suggested: this has to do with Masten's age, the department's size and some concerns about the future. If this picture is accurate, I respectfully submit that something is terribly wrong with the process. Something is wrong when what we know to be true of Masten cannot be communicated to or impressed upon a president who must decide who is a risk, or, as in this case, a gift. --Lynn Wardley, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University