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...humble and down-to-earth, a product of her unpretentious Midwestern roots, but she speaks with a sense of authority. An accomplished debater in high school, Lam shifted her attention to politics upon arriving at college, campaigning for Obama and becoming president of the Harvard Democrats. “I decided that I didn’t want to talk about politics anymore; I wanted to do politics,” she says...
...researchers to the general public online for free. It says it's also setting aside funding to pay to unknown copyright owners who step up and ask for remuneration, or remove works by those who don't want to be in Google's archive. (See pictures of Google Earth...
Feoktistov stayed with the Soviet space program after his return to Earth, helping to design its later fleet of ships, including the elegant Mir space station. Like only a handful of other cosmonauts and astronauts, he lived to see a crater on the moon bear his name. And like too many of them--the Deke Slaytons and Gus Grissoms and Wally Schirras and others--he now passes into celestial memory...
...Here's why I make that grandiose-sounding claim: Lu Xun is critically regarded as the most accomplished modern writer of the most populous nation on earth, and a grasp of his work is thus extremely useful in forming an understanding of much of humanity. In addition to stories, he wrote poetry, an extended history of Chinese literature and hundreds of essays, including small masterpieces like his eloquent 1926 tirade against the warlord government of the time for gunning down unarmed patriotic student protesters. His stories are wide-ranging in style and subject, from the touchingly nostalgic and straightforward...
Dude. Seriously? The Mather House Masters just announced about 40 minutes ago that they'll be stepping down at the end of this academic year. First Eliot, then Cabot, and now Mather? What on earth is going...