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...central character in a typical Tyler novel is a well-meaning but somehow ineffectual hero or heroine, a misfit who wonders how everyone else manages to cope. This time out, it's Barnaby Gaitlin, who turns 30 during the course of this story without having acquired any noticeable trappings of success. "A rented room," his ex-wife Natalie chides him, "an unskilled job, a bunch of shiftless friends. No goals and no ambitions...
Tahlia T. Tuck's suggestion that Harvard students cope with the homeless by "simply smiling and speaking to them" is perhaps one of the most patronizing suggestions to appear on the Crimson's editorial page (Opinion, Apr. 8). Tuck argues so passionately that we ought to treat homeless people with "human decency," yet she herself simultaneously patronizes the homeless by suggesting that they are somehow foreign beings who just happen to pervade our student landscape...
Myers has been recognized for his work by anumber of awards. Most recently, Myers won theThieme-IUPAC Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry,the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, and the Camilleand Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award...
...cope, publishers have been scaling back. HarperCollins roiled the authors' camp when it canceled more than 100 manuscripts in June to help clear its debt. And many other houses have quietly been pruning their lists. "I've been publishing for 18 years," says Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and the upcoming The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton. "Every time something happens, people say to me, 'It's a good thing you came in when you did.' But publishing is always in turmoil...
...chops, just the cops!" parties. I enjoy my fair share of lively soirees, joking around, chatting it up, listening to music, enjoying the company of strangers. These all qualify me as a reasonably healthy and mildly hedonistic Harvard student. Except that I don't drink. However do I cope...