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...amazing thing about stories is that they, in fact, travel,” novelist Chinua Achebe explains, using the term both figuratively and literally. “You let the story develop. You let the story begin. The story makes all kinds of preparations for its own arrival.”No one knows that truth better than Achebe. The Nigerian author, who currently teaches at Bard College, established himself as Nigeria’s literary ambassador to the Western world with his first novel, “Things Fall Apart,” published in 1959. This past Tuesday...
...with the second-longest tenure of those currently at the College, he and his wife felt comfortable leaving the House mastership because they are satisfied with the state in which they will leave Pforzheimer. Next year, McCarthy will take a sabbatical during which he will work on a book, develop a new General Education course, and research the intersection of religion and science. He added that his wife will devote some of her free time to quilting. But the professor said he would miss Pforzheimer’s “extraordinary sense of community...
...Jones has led the club’s early endeavors to develop a competitive intercollegiate team, providing financial assistance and donating three new horses, named Patches, Commondante, and Munyeca...
...because Chris and Liam have been the quarterbacks here since my freshman year,” Luft says. “So I’ve kind of almost not had anything but them. So I think over the three years, I’ve really been able to develop a chemistry with them...
...Missouri and George Voinovich of Ohio - felt their plan was sufficient. At a much subdued press conference held right after Reid and Pelosi's wrapped up, they unveiled their compromise, which would pull the $25 billion from a fund approved earlier this year to help the auto industry develop more fuel-efficient cars; that notion had actually been pushed by Republicans earlier in the week, but until Thursday, Democrats had contended that the money should instead come from the $700 billion financial-bailout fund. The deal would include strict limits on golden parachutes for executives and a timeline...