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Aparisim (Bobby) Ghosh offered an amazing view of hell on earth [Aug. 14]. I grew up in Ireland during the Troubles and know the anguish one experiences during times like that. It is indeed pure hell being worried your mother and father will be dragged from their home at night, never to be seen again; looking at everything as a potential bomb; and asking why no one offers help. Once again I realize I'm only one person and feel helpless to stop the suffering. Sandra Hoye Spokane, Wash...
...born in the now almost unimaginable year of 1911, in Cairo, and for the rest of his long life he rarely left that city. He worked as a civil servant in Egypt's ministry of culture, but as one of his colleagues remarked today, he was put on earth to write. And write he did: in his lifetime he produced on the order of 50 books, working every morning, never deviating from a disciplined routine. "A writer must sit down to write every day, pick up his pen and try to write something - anything - on a piece of paper...
...meditations about noodles Paul Smethurst's essay "A revolutionary from Venice" [Aug. 7] pointed out that, before Marco Polo shed some light on the subject, the Western (Christian) world's geographic and political center had been Jerusalem. That reminded me of Copernicus' famous assertion that the sun, not Earth, is at the center of the heavens. Both discoveries were important milestones for mankind because they led us to embrace hitherto unimaginable and unfathomable ideas. James Louis Ndirangu Nairobi Your special issue on Marco Polo's travels was fascinating. I was born in Scotland, migrated alone to Canada...
Despite concerns from Boston lifers that it has become too corporate, the Beanpot Championship remains a salt-of-the-earth New England institution...
...will have important exams, all of which will be labeled “midterms.” Combine exam-induced, soul-crushing stress with the seasonal deterioration of the weather and the stage is set for Seasonal Affective Disorder, which may occupy your soul and grind you into the earth. For the dedicated Harvard student, ambitious November is a challenge well...