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...Rogers’s best known films is Pictures from a Revolution (1991), in which his wife retraces her travels in Nicaragua and results in the photo essay Nicaragua: June 1978-July 1979. Ten years after the Sandinista Revolution, her purpose in returning to Nicaragua was to ask the subjects in her pictures “what do they remember...
...Photo Essay: Just days before the scheduled execution of Timothy McVeigh, photographer David Leeson visited the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial for TIME.com
...example, Boskey Professor of Law Lani Guinier ’71 has suggested that a university could reaffirm its commitment to diversity by requiring that all applicants write a personal statement describing how they would contribute to the diversity of the university. Evaluation of the essay would focus on the student’s commitment to contribute to the university’s diversity, not on a qualitative assessment of the substance of a student’s contribution. This reform would reemphasize that diversity is integral to the democratic mission of the university. It would also respect the unique...
Bravo for Charles Krauthammer's commentary "The Case for Profiling," in which he argues that airport security should focus on the people who are most likely to commit terrorist acts [ESSAY, March 18]. We are paralyzed by political correctness. It is time somebody blew the whistle on it. In any other country, profiling would certainly take place in airports, and rightly so. As a frequent traveler, I would understand being profiled in countries where people matching my physical description are known terrorists. I would expect to be treated correctly, but I would not object to being profiled. Countries have...
...full of elaborate gimmicks, such as cutesy minimalist illustrations and a glossary of terms from the book, designed to appeal to those who loved Eggers’ self-conscious style. Certain stops on Marcus’ reading tour will feature demonstrations of Silentist rituals. Marcus has even penned an essay admitting, “I have written a bad book,” for McSweeney’s, the newly prominent platform (born out of Eggers’ success) for this sort of youthful and experimental genre...