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Margaret Atwood was ready to take us on a journey to the future. But technology let her down--for the moment. Atwood, Canadian author of the Booker prizewinning The Blind Assassin, came up with the idea for a telerobotic writing device that permits an author to remotely inscribe books. The first public test of the LongPen, which can transmit a pen stroke written on an electronic tablet to a robotic pen-wielding arm, took place last week. Atwood, at a book fair in London, prepared to sign books across the Atlantic: in New York City and Guelph...
...maybe Sittenfeld purposefully depicted her in this manner. After all, Lee does not identify with the reporter’s blind villainization of prep schools. On the contrary, Lee feels pangs of guilt at having unwittingly dragged Ault’s name through the journalistic...
...while Republicans are comfortable taking religious beliefs into account as one factor among many in crafting our policy.” According to HRC member Travis R. Kavulla ’06, also editor of conservative campus newspaper the Harvard Salient and a Crimson editor, Republicans are seen as blind followers who don’t understand the ideals behind the group.They are seen as “largely uneducated, brainwashed people living in rural communities or in the South,” says this practicing Catholic. Kavulla says that Republicans “endure the caricature because they...
...insistence that a co-ed trait be defined by old, dead men. No matter how many Erica K. Jallis and Lauren A.E. Schukers—both recent Harvard Crimson presidents—grace this campus, it appears that one of Harvard’s eldest statesmen remains blind to the changing times...
...Multinational Force also is turning a blind eye to torture "increasingly being committed by Iraqi security forces," the report charges. Former detainees who were tortured or witnessed abuse of others by Iraqi authorities, it states, "have told Amnesty that such incidents occurred with the knowledge or even in the presence of U.S. troops." A lawyer for four Palestinians who are long-time residents of Iraq told the human rights group that his clients, arrested by the Iraqi Interior Ministry's Wolf Brigade paramilitary force last May 12, were beaten with cables, shocked with electricity and had their faces burned with...