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...government major, I have to write papers about politics every week. At The Crimson, I have to edit columns about politics every day. John Locke, OMB, David Souter, ICBM, Richard Pipes, NRA. It gets tiresome. Where's the poetry? Where's the color? Where's the innovation...
...Americans whose shoulders have sprouted camcorders over the past five years are happy just to point their whirring lenses at anything that moves -- drooling babies, blushing brides, cops beating up the citizenry. But in the great rush to see their lives replayed on TV, who can be bothered to edit the gems they have recorded? Result: the world's greatest collection of truly awful videotapes -- a vast library of raw footage even more droning and banal than the reality it purports to document...
...opposite extreme, a foreign correspondent I used to edit would weave elaborate tales of international intrigue, ending each delirious paragraph with the vestigial incantation, ". . . according to sources." Even he felt that by merely declaring he had "sources" -- never mind who or where -- he was allaying suspicions that he might be making...
...when most young professors are immersed in writing their second book, Rudenstine became dean of students at Princeton. Although he was also named an English professor, he never wrote a book after his first, an expanded version of his doctoral dissertation that appeared in 1967. (He did edit an anthology published...
...addition to Kwiram, Eric J. Pan '94 and Steven W. Wardell '94 will edit the magazine. Kwiram said the publication will not have a staff of writers, but will instead rely on submissions from within the Harvard community...