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...part with it. So I would steal books from the library.5. FM: What kind of books?JK: Oh, usual children’s books: Cherry Ames, Nancy Drew. I had a Bible, which I read all the time and a dictionary my mother gave me for my seventh birthday and I read it as a book.FM: You read the dictionary front to back?JK: Yes! I still do. And collect dictionaries. It had a great influence on my writing.6. FM: What do you read, besides the dictionary, today? JK: I like to read about the lives of plant collectors...
Tomorrow is my 21st birthday...
...Although most of you have eagerly awaited the coming of full adulthood with thirsty joy and fantasies of spotting the love of your life while perched seductively on a barstool quaffing overpriced drinks wih suggestive names, I face this birthday with nothing but sobriety and wistful bitterness...
...economics concentrator in Eliot House. She will be spending her 21st birthday swiping plastic online and drinking orange juice...
...right here in Cambridge. With the encouragement of University Professor Stanley Hoffmann, what started as a 30-page assignment grew into an 80-page term paper and ultimately a book. Power, along with dozens of other scholars, paid tribute to Hoffmann’s influential career at an 80th birthday celebration held at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies on Friday. Throughout the day, Hoffmann’s former students and colleagues hailed him as the kind of professor who has perpetually prioritized teaching undergraduates above his research. Since 1955, Hoffmann has taught in Harvard?...