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...Completing my first piece of journalism, in 1998, I downloaded a public domain translation of "The Brothers Karamazov" and searched it for references to a minor character called Marfa Ignatyevna, in order to add some texture to a discussion of the small but significant town of Marfa, Texas, a place supposedly named after this woman who "obeyed...yet...pestered" her "honest and incorruptible" husband. Having an active text version of the novel - which I also owned and knew - provided me with one of those extremely rare moments of pleasure, clarity, and completion in the act of writing, when the puzzle...
...implications as I do today. When the end comes for me, I'm banking on God's being an independent. Erin M. Griffin Kingston, Pennsylvania, U.S. I appreciated Sullivan's stating the truth about Christianism and Christianists - very appropriate terms - and the similarities Christianists have with Islamists. Let me add, however, that no matter which beliefs people adhere to, instead of blindly following out-of-context phrases from ancient, and therefore dare I say slightly out-of-date books, I would pray for humanity that these people would finally turn their brains on. Certainly no faith in this world requires...
...prairie herbivore with neither fangs nor claws. While a lot of animals are fleet of foot, horses achieve their speed more elegantly than most, starting with their disproportionately long legs. Limb length usually means bulk, since it takes a lot of muscle to move long bones. But muscles add weight, and weight reduces speed. The horse solves that problem by packing its musculature in its upper body, then transferring that power down to the legs with an elaborate rope work of tendons and ligaments that absorb shock as the animal runs and then snap the leg back to reuse...
...Summers—appointed Knowles to lead the University’s flagship school while the search for a new president moves forward.The reinstatement of the two former administrators will be a first for Harvard, according to Gomes, and it will give both Bok and Knowles a chance to add an epilogue to their entries in Harvard’s history books. In their second coming, however, the two Harvard men will face a familiar set of issues: chief among them, a faculty riven from the scars of a crisis in governance.Some professors see the duo’s role...
...College and in FAS should ensure that Harvard doesn’t tumble down the slippery slope toward the kind of anti-liberal arts, segregated status quo at schools like Columbia, whose undergraduate engineers have institutional affiliations different from their peers’.The legacy of President Summers will add to Harvard’s ability to contribute to scientific inquiry through institutionalized collaboration and innovation. One can only hope that Harvard College’s liberal arts focus won’t be torpedoed in the process.Adam Goldenberg ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop...