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...countries. Leyner, a soft-spoken family man from Hoboken, N.J. has built a cult following from his outrageously funny fiction. The protagonist of Mark Leyner's latest novel, The Tetherballs of Bougainville, is a 13-year-old boy named "Mark Leyner" who has won a $250,000 per-year fellowship for a screenplay he hasn't yet written; his father, convicted of murdering a mall guard with a cuisinart, has been placed on "Discretionary Execution" by the State of New Jersey, meaning that he can be killed wherever and whenever the State feels like...
Thirty years after graduating with the Class of 1968, I find myself back at Harvard for a semester's fellowship at the Institute of Politics. I have been pleasantly reminded of how central to one's identity a great, good place like this can remain even through long absences. I delighted in seeing the strength and depth of my alma mater reflected in Nelson Mandela's gracious acceptance of the honor Harvard had bestowed upon him. Perhaps like many others in Tercentenary Theater that day, I found myself peering through the prism of my identification with Harvard to consider...
...addition to winning the Pulitzer Prize,Graham has also received the Lavan Award, aMacArthur Fellowship and a grant from the NationalEndowment for the Arts
According to Assistant Senior Tutor and Lowell House Fellowship Adviser Andrew C. Blume, the first committee is made up of fellowship advisers from each house. Based on standards set forth by the Marshall and Rhodes Scholarship committees, the advisers decide whether the applications deserve endorsement...
Paul A. Bohlmann, the fellowship director at the OCS, praised the seniors moving on to the next level but warned that the battle is far from over...