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...strange epiphany for an American who went to Britain as a scholar at Cambridge and stayed on to revive and edit the successful literary magazine Granta. Buford's sojourn among the thugs began on an ordinary Saturday in 1982 after returning home in the company of berserk soccer fans bent on tearing $ apart their train. To find out "why young males in England were rioting every Saturday," he joined the drunken legions of Daft Donalds, Barmy Bernies and Steamin' Sammys as they rampaged around Europe like latter-day Storm Troopers, trashing cities and forcing hooligan into the vocabulary of much...
...anyway, we each have a canon--a place where "we have written down the texts and tiles that we want to remember." For society to do so is inevitable and desirable. Gates speaks several times of personally helping to edit a new canon, in fact--the Norton Anthology of African American Literature. But doesn't all of this mean he's just selling out like Slade...
...Crimson has a great deal to offer Harvard students--it can provide them with a place to learn to report, write, edit, take photos, design or conduct business for a daily paper...
...Crimson reporters often misquote members from our organizations and extensively edit quotes, take words out of context and selectively pick parts of interviews and statements which misrepresent the speaker. We ask for less editing of quotes and a less combative style of interviewing. Also, non-members of a similar ethnic back-ground are often quoted to represent the whole organizations. The Crimson's series on diversity proved this incompetence...
Penguin Books, Leavitt's publishers, has asked him to edit a book of gay short fiction to be published along with a book of lesbian stories edited by Jeanette Winterson...