Word: books
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Angela's Ashes, McCourt's first book, is a bestseller and garnered the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The book has been translated into 25 languages, and 5 million hardcover copies are in print...
First, anyone who spends as much time as she does out on the sidewalk certainly qualifies as "public" in my book. Second, the way she is treated by daily pedestrians says a lot about our treatment of the homeless in general and is worthy of an examination. And lastly, she deserves...
...might be hard to convince you that I like this routine, but I do. From the day the course book arrives at my doorstep (or doesn't, in the case of this year, so I read it on the Web), I read it cover to cover, pen in hand, marking a complex pattern of courses and their relative rank in my mind. I create a database which I sort by semester, exam group, Core, concentration or elective credit, of literally hundreds of courses. I boil down to a final list that numbers in the teens and hit the ground running...
...often the books wouldn't. The Coop always make an effort to provide the correct number of books to students at the cheapest prices, but sometimes the system doesn't work. "It's an added expense for the store if we are not efficient on bringing in the correct number of books to the store," Jeremiah P. Murphy '73, the president of The Coop, told me. Murphy said the costs, which are "due to the uniqueness of the Harvard shopping period," are built into the margin on the book. That means when a course has a dramatically higher enrollment than...
...book?s protagonist, Oskar, refuses to grow in protest at the hypocrisies he sees all around him as Germany is seduced by the allure of Nazism, and then ?- as a dwarf ?- gains privileged access to the elite of the Third Reich. Its bold exploration of issues postwar Germany was doing its best to forget made its author a legendary social critic and literary provocateur. He became strongly identified with Germany?s political left, and in 1990 was criticized for rejecting the speedy reunification of East and West Germany. "In his later writing, he took partisan political positions," says Gray...