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...crying all over me.” Here, five years into Harry’s adventures at Hogwarts, he finally faces one of the challenges that we Harvard students can most relate to—ineptitude in dealing with the opposite sex. One New York Times critic worries that since “the hormones have started to kick in at Hogwarts, the fear is that it will gross out the grammar-school readership, if it doesn’t just bore the kids silly...
...opium agent for the British Raj - has brought a tide of conferences, articles and books on the man and his legacy. Chief among them are two engrossing biographies: George Orwell by British author Gordon Bowker (Little, Brown; 495 pages) and Orwell: The Life by British novelist and critic D.J. Taylor (Chatto & Windus; 466 pages). Also stoking the fire are two slimmer works: Why Orwell Matters by polemicist Christopher Hitchens (Basic Books; 211 pages) and an entertaining look at Orwell's second wife Sonia, The Girl from the Fiction Department by Hilary Spurling (Penguin; 208 pages). These additions to the mountain...
Just as loudly, others have denounced her as a fraud, and one scholarly critic has called her work “social science at sea without an anchor...
...Mahmoud Abbas is in a very lonely place just days after having been rolled out onto the international stage as the new hope of the Palestinians. The barrage of criticism has come not only from those with a vested interest in seeing his pursuit of the "roadmap" fail - the militant groups waging the armed intifadah, and Arafat - but also on the streets. Among those who bothered to pay attention to the meeting in Aqaba, there was widespread anger at the perception that Abbas had said many things the Israelis and Americans wanted to hear, but had avoided articulating Palestinian grievances...
...team finished fourth in the Ivies again and bowed out in the NCAA second round, with dissent coloring the offseason after the disappointing finish. Ripmaster—a three-year starter but a vocal critic of Wheaton—was not invited back last summer. She opted to play lacrosse at Harvard and finish her soccer career at Colorado...