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...Dave Y. Terrence ’03 is mulling over his Harvard-Cambridge Scholarship essay, which he wrote 15 minutes before it was due last Tuesday. “Why didn’t I spell-check this first?” Terrence lamented, referring to his spelling of “bottem,” “sincrely,” and “goooooo.” “I mean, what does ‘goooooo’ even mean? What the hell was that...
...piece about the early onset of darkness, Walter Kirn calls for an emergency extension of daylight saving time (DST) so it will be light later [ESSAY, Nov. 11]. Unlike Kirn, I'm glad dst is over. Without sunlight, I had trouble waking up and facing a new day's challenges. An extra hour of light in the afternoon doesn't really do any good. Who is going to take a walk in diminishing sunlight when it's almost freezing outside? Extending DST is not going to change people's perception of winter very much. Winter isn't a gloomy time...
Your report "TRUST ME, HE SAYS," about the President's confrontation with Iraq [ESSAY, Nov. 11], missed critical realities that George W. Bush understands. Naturally, a number of those who responded to TIME's poll have "some doubts and reservations" about Bush's leadership as we anticipate going to war. But this could simply mean that Americans see war as a regrettable necessity. The President has decided to plunge ahead because he believes we face a future menaced by frightening weapons brandished by brutal killers who have gone unchallenged and unchecked. It is not a matter of a new, Bush...
...also shows, always with another consciousness. What good fiction fosters is not self-absorbed isolation but isolation as the first step toward engaging the mind of the writer or his characters. So the keystone of this book is "Why Bother?", a revised and retitled version of a now famous essay that Franzen published six years ago in Harper's magazine. He tries to define a purpose for himself as a novelist in a society in which "the rising waters of electronic culture have made each reader and each writer an island." He finds in fiction the hope of signaling across...
...came across something the other day that struck me: an essay by Joyce, on the subject of epiphanies. He defined them as moments when the “soul of the commonest object seems to us radiant.” And so I began to wonder when it last was that anything had shone at Harvard, radiantly...