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...meat business. "I love the pig and like the pork," he writes. While his musings about pigs are affectionate, Reynaud, 40, avoids sentimentality by refusing to gloss over the animal's journey from pen to plate. Instead he makes a feature of it, opening the book with a chapter titled "Pig-Killing Time at Saint-Agrève" (his mountain hometown in the Ardèche region of France) that is a frank, celebratory portrayal of the "taking apart and devouring" of one of the locally raised swine...
...could have been a plot from Revenge of the Nerds. In December the Delta Zeta sorority, struggling to combat its bookish reputation, booted 23 students from its DePauw University chapter, saying the sisters were neglecting their recruiting duties. The 23 young women, who insisted that they were shown the door because they were not pretty enough, scored a plus-size payback when DePauw President Robert Bottoms decided that, come September, it would be the Delta Zetas who would no longer be welcome on campus. Of the expulsion, Bottoms said, "We believe the values of our university and those of Delta...
...against that kind of competition, it’s tough,” she said. “The meet is getting faster. There is always pressure to perform well for yourself and Harvard, but I’m happy with my performance. I look forward to the next chapter of my life.” Despite the senior’s departure, the performance of freshman Alexandra Clarke offers hope for the future. “[Clarke] was just out of scoring range, so it’s comforting for the next three years,” Bassi said...
Both of these initiatives are part of Bok’s ongoing efforts to study methods to improve undergraduate education, a subject about which he has written extensively. In his 2006 book “Our Underachieving Colleges,” Bok devotes a chapter to the subject of undergraduate writing, drawing from a four-year study conducted by Sommers between 1997 and 2001. The study tracked the writing of 400 students to “gain a better understanding of the role writing plays in a college education,” according to the Expos Web site...
...purpose of 449 pages of opinion on entering a war four years after the fact? If this is a protest novel, it comes a bit late. Say it ain’t so, Jane.Smiley finds a measure of redemption in her beautiful evocations of interiority. Each chapter is narrated by one character, and, like a skilled cinematographer, Smiley deftly zooms in and out.If Smiley’s ability to render consciousness is breathtaking, her skills at creating dialogue are as well, but for the opposite reason. Smiley allows her egotistical characters to indulge in uninterrupted story recitations—open...