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...Just months into his freshman year, Knobler saw the contraction of his social network, the result of an essay displayed on his website: knobler.com. Since 11th grade, Knobler has used his homepage to proffer school assignments and personal reflections into the wide, wide world of cyberspace. One paper, on what he sees as a double standard surrounding athletics and academics, found its way into the wrong hands: Harvard jocks...
...fellow wrote an ambitious op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal attacking me as the worst writer in history. (I shall try to improve.) But even important writers will attack for success. James Baldwin admitted that he felt he had to "kill" Richard Wright in an essay, to supplant...
Actually, I have the answers right now. But first, a few disclosures are necessary. Readers have the right to know that TIME magazine will be part of AOL Time Warner. The author of this essay, by contrast, has a day job as editor of Slate, an online magazine published by Microsoft. Microsoft owns an online service, msn, that competes with AOL. Microsoft and AOL Time Warner will have competing investments in the cable industry. On yet another hand, Microsoft and Time Warner are co-investors in a high-speed cable-Internet connection business called Roadrunner. On a fourth hand, Microsoft...
While Josef Joffe was technically correct to say in his essay about coffee drinking [ESSAY, Dec. 6] that "there isn't a Starbucks in sight on Tiananmen Square," there are some just a short walk away. In fact, there are several, where you can enjoy a latte or sip a double-tall mocha. Beijing is transforming itself into a modern metropolis with Starbucks full of Chinese and expats getting their Java jolt. When it comes to coffee bars, Beijing is no latte lightweight. CHRISTOPHER OXLEY Beijing
STRANGEST STORY SUGGESTION "Would you publish my philosophical essay on morality and cheese...