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...school or any of our family friends had ever gone there to my knowledge, and I had never been to Boston or cared much about colleges. Ms. Albarelli was aghast, and before we left she made us promise that when we went on our summer vacation trip to Cape Cod (we had also never been there) we would go visit this grand Harvard place of which she spoke...
What does it mean when a comic book does a better job conveying the true predicament of Iran than the leaders of the free world and the best efforts of its free press? Perhaps it means that Marjane Satrapi, the author of the autobiography Persepolis (Jonathan Cape; 153 pages), is not distracted by the contradictions that riddle Iran. In black-and-white ink drawings, she presents the memories of her childhood - the repressive morality police marching the streets, the Iraqi F-14 jets streaking past the window panes, and the parties, intellectual debates and love stories carried on behind closed...
Tonis, who was HUPD’s chief from from 1962 to 1975, died on April 11 at Hospice House on Cape Cod. He was known as Harvard’s “Renaissance Cop,” for his involvement with the Academy and the revolutionary change he brought to the department...
Second, imperialism pollutes the imperial nation. I grew up in Liverpool when it was one of the British Empire's great ports. Its docks were full of ships laden with palm oil and sugarcane, with liners bound for Cape Town and Colombo. You might think, to read some of imperialism's apologists, that such a familiarity with exotic climes would have bred a reverence for foreign cultures, as if every child of empire wanted to do something noble, like translate the Bhagavad Gita or teach for a year in Sierra Leone. Sadly, not so. In Britain, the imperialist adventure produced...
Unlike many youths, he never imagined himself as a professional wrestler, never donned a cape while imitating Hulk Hogan and certainly never looked forward to watching the sport on television...