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...early as my first semester freshman year, I got the sense that Harvard students divide people into two categories: Harvard and non-Harvard. Some people truly internalize this division of Self and Other. We’ve been force-fed this “best and brightest” nonsense from day one, and many of us have come to believe it. Students from other schools seem uninspiring, even Philistine...
...communist movement and the son of a leading leftist writer, Huang imbibed the virtues of Marxist thought early. But because of his family's privileged status in Beijing circles during the 1960s and '70s, he also read the uncensored news reports sent to his father before they were fed into the propaganda machine. During heated mealtime debates, Huang was soon taking the knowledge gleaned from those papers?and from hours spent listening to the forbidden Voice of America?to challenge his father's political beliefs. "My father thought that by exposing me to the world, I would eventually figure...
...thoughtful "Picasso Ingres" exhibit in Paris last year. Now there's the traveling "Turner, Whistler, Monet" exhibit currently at London's Tate Britain. This is the golden age of spot-the-influence shows. Some museumgoers see them as a two- or three-for-one bonus, others as a force-fed art history lecture. But there's no denying that when such exhibitions work, they can have an unmatched power. One of the best yet is "Bacon Picasso: A Life of Images" at Paris' Musée Picasso until...
...communist movement and the son of a leading leftist writer, Huang imbibed the virtues of Marxist thought early. But because of his family's privileged status in Beijing circles during the 1960s and '70s, he also read the uncensored news reports sent to his father before they were fed into the propaganda machine. During heated mealtime debates, Huang was soon taking the knowledge gleaned from those papers--and from hours spent listening to the forbidden Voice of America--to challenge his father's political beliefs. "My father thought that by exposing me to the world, I would eventually figure...
...Sailor Johnsen that evening. Soon after the kidnapping Sailor Johnsen was arrested at the home of a brother in a suburb of Hartford, Conn. Much attention was directed toward Johnsen because his automobile was found to harbor an empty milk bottle, the suspicion being that the sailor might have fed the baby while transporting him somewhere. No amount of interrogation by Hartford officials could break down Johnsen's alibi for the night of March 1. The alibi was substantiated by one Johanssen Junge, husband of a trusted seamstress in the Morrow home at Englewood. Junge was described by Connecticut authorities...