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...same year. It makes sense that ghosts should be endemic to a life as haunted as Tan's. Besides the deaths of her father and brother, she writes of losing a best friend in a violent murder, a beloved editor to swift cancer and, in the moving essay Last Week, of watching her mother succumb to Alzheimer's disease...
...University’s notoriously discerning admissions office effectively grants right of entry to post-graduate Harvard Clubs. Few social establishments can boast of an application for membership that requires a personal essay and a laundry list of scholastic accolades?...
...night, kind and knowledgeable nurses popped into the room, replacing IV bags, checking my temperature, making sure I was responsive to the antibiotics provided at no cost. Whether the institution’s goal was simply to rehabilitate get me and get me back on the essay-writing assembly line again, I appreciated their effort. After slogging through the last 36 hours in half-sleep and semi-consciousness, it was strangely comforting to have a tube attached to my arm and clean, tile floors beneath...
Michael Kinsley, in his essay "The Religious Superiority Complex" [Nov. 3], wrote about Lieut. General William Boykin's preaching that Christianity's God is superior to Islam's. I have no patience for people who say their God is bigger than that of others. In fact, it's mere nonsense and malicious, especially in reference to Christians, Muslims and Jews, all of whom believe in one God. Religious fundamentalists from any faith who slander and sow hatred against others of a different creed are using religion as an excuse for pursuing their personal worldly interests. In a spiritual...
...yours, I thought." Benjamin Zephaniah, British Rasta poet and activist, in an essay explaining that he turned down the Order of the British Empire honor because it "reminds me of slavery...