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...Niyizonkiza worked showed up. War had erupted, forcing the promising medical student to embark on a harrowing flight through the bloodstained hills of Burundi and Rwanda. Armed with a ticket bought by a friend's father, he boarded a plane to New York City--where he arrived with no English, no contacts and just $200 in his pocket. Facing hunger, homelessness and heavy odds, the young refugee--propelled by the kindness of strangers--rose from the streets to Columbia University in two short years. It's a true story, and one that Kidder, the Pulitzer Prize--winning author of Mountains...
...English 182: "Science Fiction," which counts toward Literature and Arts...
...English 168d: "Postwar American and British Fiction," which counts toward Literature and Arts A. (Although the crowd in this class probably has more to do with the headlining professor, the inimitable James Wood, than the fact that it counts as a core class. Let's be honest—is anyone going to compete with a flock of fawning English concentrators when all they really want is an easy A in a core...
...putting down an empty glass on the table,” light as a “dove in the hands of a madman.” (For the sleek rendering of Cortázar’s surrealistic, reference-laden brand of introspection, the English reader is indebted to translator Gregory Rabassa...
...second-most popular woman in America (just behind Eleanor Roosevelt). Although her show was clearly about a Jewish family, the Goldbergs’ laughter and struggle were accessible and comforting to immigrants throughout the nation, even in the depths of the Great Depression. The humor found in stumbling over English words, the hope of a better future for one’s children, the communal compassion that grew out of many tenement neighborhoods—these were familiar pictures of the American experience for those of the first generation, and Kempner contextualizes this environment with rich footage from old film...