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...author, Virginia Woolf. The book won a Pulitzer. Nicole Kidman got an Oscar for the movie. Just like that, Cunningham's precious obscurity was gone. "It's harder to feel the necessary degree of recklessness when people are paying attention," he says. "You have to be willing to fail...
...entire Review should follow Gen Ed’s lead. Faculty discontent suggests that the Review will ultimately fail to pass a Faculty vote, anyway. The process should begin over again with the goal of producing recommendations that really challenge or extend our notions of what an undergraduate education should...
...elected. And don’t worry, you won’t have to follow through on it; you can campaign for more funding for student groups and then vote (like most of your UC colleagues) for more money instead for the UC’s sure-to-fail events—like this year’s “Havana on the Harbor” pseudo-booze cruise ($2,350) and the Springfest “Afterparty?...
...compliments on your excellent article about the subtle racism that still divides South African society. That may worsen in our second decade of democracy, as the idealists of the struggle and the survivors of oppression increasingly move out of public life. Our quality of life may decline if people fail to recognize capitalism's ills, like greed and self-complacency, and if they lack compassion for their neighbors. We have to pin our hopes on the possibility that enough South Africans have embraced the most fundamental value of our constitution: human dignity. Dan Badenhorst Cape Town Days of Rage Time...
...dismayed by TIME'S decision to legitimize Coulter and the venom she spews by stating that "she helps set the nation's tone." Without fail, she lowers the level of discourse on whatever issue she targets for her latest bilious tirade against liberalism and Democrats. If Coulter's screeching caricature of political commentary is setting the tone, the nation is the worse...