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...logic. During the first half of the book, Aslan barely carries a significant role. All the reader knows about him is that he is an aspiring writer who repeatedly copies works of canonical German writers and that he has written a four-page-long novel. Suddenly and out of context, Leo slaughters him with an axe, appears in Aslan’s afterlife as a god or a demigod, and chants like a mad prophet: “every day isn’t easter, the rabbits haven’t laid any eggs this year, so we?...

Author: By Shijung Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Austrian Lind’s ‘Ergo’ a Labor of Post-War Melancholy | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...reading. Instead of delivering on this front, Jakov Lind limited the artistic potential of the novel by consciously designating a purpose to it. “Ergo,” unfortunately, is like a long, repetitive commentary on postwar terror that can never stand alone without its historical context...

Author: By Shijung Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Austrian Lind’s ‘Ergo’ a Labor of Post-War Melancholy | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...context of the clinical setting, seeing the same robust association a second time in an independent population markedly improves its value,” said study author Michael A. Schwarzschild, an associate professor of neurology at the Medical School...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Urate May Help Slow Parkinson’s | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

Some four centuries after Smith’s arrival to America, three other New Englanders embarked on a literary journey of their own. With the intent of exploring historical facts in a greater socio-politico-cultural context, Werner Sollors (Harvard Professor of African and African American Studies), Greil Marcus (well-known music critic and the first reviews editor of “Rolling Stone”), and Lindsay Waters (Executive Editor for the Humanities of the Harvard University Press (HU Press)) began composing a reference book that attempts to redefine the standard approach to writing about America?...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Turning Over an Old Page | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...politicians from Britain's mainstream parties, showing a rare unanimity of purpose, attacked and belittled him. Yet politicians in Britain are at best damaged goods, their authority sapped by constant partisan skirmishing and their reputations tarnished by recent revelations of Westminster's venal expenses culture. In that context, their joint assault on Griffin, heartfelt as it was, could read like the establishment conspiring to protect its vested interests against an outsider. (See the top ten most outrageous claims from Britain's Expenses Scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Angry British Voters Are Tuning In to Bigots | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

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