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...Iron Arnold Schwarzenegger seems to be experiencing a few problems as California's Governor [May 2]. It might cheer him to read an excerpt from Richard Schickel's Jan. 24, 1977, review of Pumping Iron, the documentary that helped make Schwarzenegger a household name...
There was also an original spoken word piece by Leyla R. Bravo ’06 and an excerpt from Ralph Ellison’s “The Invisible Man” read by host Omar A. Urquidez ’05, along with other original, contemporary, and traditional acts...
...Arabic translator and a military intelligence specialist at the detention facility for suspected terrorists that the U.S. operates at its naval base at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba. He recounts his experiences in a new book, Inside the Wire, co-written by TIME correspondent Viveca Novak. In the following excerpt, Saar, now retired from the Army, deals with the issue of suicide attempts among the detainees and the military's use of the Initial Reaction Force (IRF). An IRF team, Saar explains, is a five-person unit responsible for subduing an obstreperous detainee. Four soldiers each take a limb; the fifth...
Morrison read an excerpt from her most recent novel, Love, published...
After an introduction by Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton K. Anthony Appiah, Soyinka himself took the podium. Soyinka read “A Digression on the Purpose of Accident,” an excerpt from a memoir-in-progress he expects to publish next year...