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...stemmed from his now infamous lyrics threatening to kill his wife and his mother and expressing his rampant homophobia. Charged with being a bad human and a toxic influence, Eminem pleaded not guilty by reason of artistic integrity. He was a guy named Marshall Mathers with a rap alter ego named Eminem, and that alter ego happened to have a lunatic doppelganger of its own named Slim Shady. He was merely playing a role (or three...
University President James Bryant Conant ’14 proposed that Harvard alter its curriculum so that students could complete their studies in three years—to save Harvard men both money and time...
...want: a cancer book. Instead, she wrote about Reta, a middle-aged novelist whose daughter Norah has abruptly dropped out of college to panhandle on a Toronto street corner. Norah won't speak; she wears a sign around her neck that reads, simply, GOODNESS. Reta is Shields' not-quite alter ego, and like Shields, she is discovering a realm of pain she never knew existed. "The whole sense of sadness, of the end of things, of the broken vessel--everything is there," says Shields in her quiet, serious voice...
...hard. After all, she reminds him, "you're not Superman." The joke is on her, because we know that her nephew is in fact a superhero; but it's also on us, because she has pinpointed what we like about not only Spider-Man and his geeky-sweet alter ego Peter, but most of the masked marvels we've followed from the comics to the screen. We don't want our superheroes to be invulnerable Supermen--Clark Kent's sad-sack persona is as essential to fans as Superman's ability to turn steel girders into pasta ribbons...
...things has to happen for Summers’ image to improve among students: either we have to get over it, or he has to change his habits. If he doesn’t surmount the communication barrier, he’s headed for a sophomore slump. If he can alter his perception on campus, perhaps we can finally begin to take advantage of our newly prominent seat at the University’s table...