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...Harvard experience that cannot be found in textbooks. Back in the summer of 2002, the first hints of a Harvard education arrived in my mailbox: a small book of required reading meant to provide the fodder for freshman week discussions with members of the Faculty. The selection of essays has varied slightly from year to year, but the one mainstay has been Emerson’s “Self-Reliance.”I thought of that essay the other day when I happened upon “Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education...
...cheap and blatant political ploy," she should remember that Republicans are masters at exploiting divisive issues that rile single-issue voters on the right and get them to the polls. Richard Oliver Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. Catalan Pride on the Pitch I was disappointed by Franklin Foer's essay about European football, "Homage to Catalonia" [May 22]. Foer said that over the years, his view of the Barcelona club "has grown ever more romantic," owing to its anti-Franco traditions. If he was willing to link football with politics and religion, he should have written at least a couple...
...short newspaper article; if this gets in too late, or never at all, a big advertisement (or The Crimson’s magnificent open letter to the readers) can take its place. It’s not as easy when you’re starting on a 20-page essay two days past its deadline. Some people I’ve talked to share a handful of my symptoms. Minor accomplishments, say, the completion of a particularly clause-rich sentence, seem to merit, according to the dominant irrational side of my mind, an entire hour’s worth...
...Arkansan in New England, a lesbian in a straight world, a science-fiction writer in the gay and lesbian world.”Scott says she draws inspiration for her books from “pretty much anywhere and anything.” Anne Fausto-Sterling’s essay “The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough” galvanized Scott to write “Shadow Man,” of which the premise is that there are human beings who have mutated into seven sexes. One of the planets in the book...
From 1939 to 1966, the Duke and Pappy made 14 films together. This package contains eight of their burliest, including The Searchers, that towering, troubling essay on race, sex and Manifest Destiny. It also has Wayne's starmaking turn in Stagecoach and the late-'40s cavalry films Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. All these westerns constitute a romantic first draft of American expansionist history, with Wayne as the surly Moses, urging his settlers on toward the promised land...