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Wasilla to the White House The headline of Kinsley's essay "Alaskanomics" [Sept. 22] enticed me to read on, expecting a cogent article which would give me an insight into the current brouhaha surrounding Sarah Palin's entry into the White House race. However, by the final sentence I was wondering where you had dug up this misogynist ranter who also believes that all Alaskans are leeches and not "real Americans." I am going to guess that he is journalist who lives, or has lived, in Washington. Sarah has really got to those ol' boys. You go, girl...
Kinsley's essay left me wondering why a woman, with a history of doing her very best for the people who elected her at both local and state levels, would be suspected of becoming partisan once elected to national office? It seems to me that Alaskan Governor Palin would be just the person to help do for America what she has done for Alaska and Wasilla: increase revenues, decrease spending, tax windfalls and ensure greater dividends are returned to her present constituents. So what if she has found only 2% of Alaska's budget to be pork? No one else...
...editors: Re: “Journalists Lose at Harvard,” Op-ed, Sept. 19. I do not understand how Mr. David A. Andelman ‘66 could have read my essay, “The Research Library in the Digital Age,” as an attack on the press and on my own brother, John. John and I were raised to value a free press as the strongest buttress of democracy; and that principle touched us personally, because our father was killed as a correspondent for The New York Times in World...
...hard to get a teenager off the couch and working on that all important college essay? You might blame it on their immature nucleus accumbens, a region in the frontal cortex that directs motivation to seek rewards. James Bjork at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has been using fMRI to study motivation in a challenging gambling game. He found that teenagers have less activity in this region than adults do. "If adolescents have a motivational deficit, it may mean that they are prone to engaging in behaviors that have either a really high excitement factor...
...least change in our point of view, gives the whole world a pictorial air,” wrote Emerson almost 200 years ago in the essay “Nature.” Fast-forward two centuries and the edgiest avant-garde cinema is just an application of the same principle—at least according to P. Adams Sitney, considered by many to be America’s foremost scholar of avant-garde cinema. Sitney was at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) last Monday to deliver an illustrated lecture about the philosophy behind American avant-garde film. If anyone...