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They include witty quotes, quick tips and short essay samples from students who have successfully wrestled with pressing high school and college topics, like navigating the whirlwind world of extracurricular activities or locating a good adviser...
...arts education is structured,” says German student Werner Schaefer ’02-’03. “They don’t know how to get in and what is important when you apply, like extracurriculars, summer experiences and the type of college essay to write. So that only leaves a few people who actually make...
...familiar. Although he sometimes took his viewers to the post office or to a factory, more often than not he stayed at home and remained in the mode of slow motion. That mode has its own magical quality, one that the German philosopher Walter Benjamin celebrated in his essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Benjamin reminded us of how close-ups of the objects that surround us, investigations of familiar places and attention to the hidden details of what is routine not only help us understand the realities...
David Wise, in his essay "Why the Spooks Shouldn't Run Wars," referred to the 2002 incident in Yemen in which a CIA Predator drone fired a missile that vaporized a car carrying a U.S. citizen, alleged terrorist Kamal Derwish. Wise noted that Derwish had not been charged with or convicted of any crime and asked, "Where is the outrage?" Well, the terrorists have had their turn to play rough, and now it's our turn. If we plan to ask politely that each terrorist suspect outside the U.S. submit to questioning, we might as well give all terrorists...
...issue of The New Yorker: “the most powerful leverage in fiction comes from point of view” (found in an analysis of the last draft of his third novel, The Deer Park); “film is best when ambiguous” (found in an essay on writing for the silver screen); “your material only becomes valuable when it is existential, by which I mean an experience you do not control” (found in an account of Mailer’s apprenticeship to his craft at Harvard); and the wrenching formulation...