Word: essays
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Gupta's application included faculty recommendations and an essay on "something you've undertaken to forward your career...
...provide quick and unflinching feedback to TIME through letters, faxes, phone calls, E-mails, online postings: everything but carrier pigeon. Such rapid response makes it easy to tell when the magazine has hit a nerve, as it certainly did recently with Charles Krauthammer's piece opposing same-sex marriages [ESSAY, July...
Nearly 500 readers wrote about the Essay. Although some of them strongly supported Krauthammer's position, about 90% of those who wrote criticized--to put it mildly--his arguments, particularly his linking of gay marriages to polygamy and incest. "I have yet to read a credible study showing a homosexual relationship causes the same level of psychological trauma that incest does," wrote Kar-yee Wu, 24, a Hong Kong native and second-year medical student at Tufts University in Boston. "Also, I don't remember the last time someone was killed or beaten because he or she was polygamous...
...urban woman, I find myself brooding over the same bear stories as Barbara Ehrenreich in her piece on vacationing in bear country [ESSAY, Aug. 12]. When I am out camping and hiking, every snapping twig in the dark is surely a grizzly. It's amazing how many stumps on the hiking trail look exactly like a bear rearing on its hind legs. I've read that on the trails you should alert the bears you are coming by talking, singing or wearing a bell on your backpack. I was not singing or ringing when my daughter and I recently hiked...
...were delighted to read Richard Stengel's reply [NATION, July 22] to Robert Putnam's 1995 essay "Bowling Alone," in which Putnam asserted that Americans' traditional engagement in civic activities has been in a 25-year decline. We couldn't agree more with Stengel! There is, indeed, a hidden revolution of citizen involvement that's not reflected in the declining membership rolls of traditional civic groups. But the media typically fail to report on the new forms of civic participation that contradict Putnam's notion of waning social capital. A vast universe of American public life, including citizen-based initiatives...