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Perhaps it's a cold truth, but sometimes death burnishes an author's reputation. It was only after she committed suicide that Sylvia Plath's most affecting, well-known works came out, Ariel, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems. John Kennedy Toole's Southern gothic tragicomedy A Confederacy of Dunces was unpublished and gathering dust until Toole's mother put it in the hands of Walker Percy years after her son's suicide. The 2008 publication in English of Stieg Larsson's critically acclaimed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo came four years after he passed...
...concentrator from Adams House, Joseph P. Shivers ’10 tends to draw cartoons about Harvard rather than anything that would require him to follow real-world news. He would like to thank his family and friends for humoring him when he shows them his drawings, and especially Ariel Shaker for suggesting this in the first place. Samuel L. Clemens is a third-semester freshman concentrating in the Alphabet, with a secondary field in Two-Digit Numbers. He enjoys masturbatory self-description. Also, gargoyles. His comics focus on anthropomorphic abstractions, such as “loyalty” with...
...from the same place as Livni and Netanyahu - from Likud. "Lieberman was Netanyahu's chief of staff when Bibi was Prime Minister," a veteran Likudnik told me. "He and Tzipi were also very close." Lieberman left Netanyahu's staff, turning right, in the late 1990s; Livni turned left, joining Ariel Sharon's moderate Kadima party. But Livni made it clear that she would welcome Lieberman into a governing coalition if she won, which says something about the state of moderation in Israeli politics these days. In the hours after the election, it was assumed by the media and most politicians...
...Elected to the Knesset in 1999, Lieberman has served as Minister of National Infrastructure and Minister of Transportation. He was sacked as Minister of Transportation by Ariel Sharon in 2004 after refusing to support Sharon's plan to disengage from Gaza...
...After Harvard, Duncan played professional basketball in Australia for four years. Though he never hit it big in the NBA as he had originally hoped, basketball nonetheless paved the way for Duncan’s later career. In 1981, John Rogers Jr., CEO of Ariel Capital Management and a former teammate of Duncan’s in a Chicago three-on-three basketball league, offered Duncan a job managing Ariel Community Academy, a charter school funded by the business. From there, Duncan went on to manage the Chicago city parks. He was eventually tapped to run CPS by Paul...