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Seeing the spire of Memorial Church alight, at dusk or in darkness, as I leave Mass. Hall in the evenings—that is very beautiful, especially because the Memorial Hall Tower, also alight, is in the same sight line, and both look even better with the glimmer of University...

Author: By Neil L. Rudenstine, | Title: Books, Buildings, and the Yard | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

The sound of a Ping-Pong ball suddenly shatters the quiet. I see nothing but can sense the ball moving left, then right, then back again (and again and again). My ears are performing the equivalent of the left-and-right neck pivot required to watch tennis. Finally the ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Fidelity | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

The Left Hand of Darkness, perhaps her most famous novel, details a character in an elaborately constructed society where the sex of inhabitants varies in cycles. The novel itself forms one part of an entire imagined universe fleshed out in an assemblage of novels and stories collectively called "The Hainish...

Author: By Josiah J. Madigan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Le Guin Adds Feminist Edge to Science Fiction | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

The close examination of gender roles in The Left Hand of Darkness came from one of the few woman science fiction writers of her era. But while she found success in a field dominated by men, Le Guin came from Harvard/Radcliffe at a time when gender roles were strictly defined...

Author: By Josiah J. Madigan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Le Guin Adds Feminist Edge to Science Fiction | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

In India, where religion dominates lives and where many of the country's 330 million gods take the shape of animals, birds and demons, the supernatural is often fused with reality, and reason often gets plowed under by superstition. In frightened northern and eastern New Delhi, home to some 4...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monkey Man Attack! | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

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