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...grandfather, who went into the mountains to lead a revolt against an early 20th century Venezuelan dictator, and Simón Bolívar, South America's 19th century independence hero. "Chávez has always seen himself as that kind of heroic man of action on horseback," says Alberto Barrera, co-author of the biography Hugo Chávez sin Uniforme (Hugo Chávez Out of Uniform). Venezuela's ambassador to the U.N., Francisco Arias, a former classmate who took part with Chávez in a 1992 coup attempt, says that when the two men went through military training together, "Hugo...
...they made an episode in which a hallucination tells Hurley that everything that happened on the island was in his head, and then they disproved it. "There's a kind of reciprocal exchange," says David Lavery, chair in film and television at London's Brunel University and a co-author of Unlocking the Meaning of Lost. "The fans know more about the show--except what's going to happen next week--than the people creating the show. Fandoms feel power that they never felt before...
...course, the Lovitzes are a minority of Lost viewers. But they're a vocal one. Pop-culture critic Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad Is Good for You, says the show's makers "are relying on the amplifying power of the serious hard-core fans, who are 1% of the audience, to broadcast some of these cool little discoveries to perhaps 10% of their audience. Those are the great evangelists for the show, the 10% who are out there saying, Oh, God, I am so addicted to this show." And they help reel in the other 90%, which is where...
Your friend, author Amy Tan, once said that you're "the rabbi of everybody." Do you feel comfortable in that spiritual adviser's role...
...editors: I take significant issue with Mr. Bronshtein’s recently published “Make the Admissions Game Fair†(op-ed, Sep. 21) for several reasons. Initially, however, I will stand alongside the author in applauding the College’s recent decision to abolish its early action policy. It does represent an important step towards Harvard’s recruitment of “the very best,†as Bronshtein labels them, regardless of socioeconomic, geographic, or—for lack of better term—scholastic origin. It is true...