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...tearjerkers about a misunderstood unicorn who becomes a societal outcast because of one alleged act. Or multiple alleged acts. Harvard Outing Club: What happens in the woods, stays in the woods. Mock Trial Team & Pre-Law Society: In case you should ever find yourself in court. Harvard Science Fiction Club: These guys will believe any story. Catholic Student Association: A religion that believes in creative birth control, not to mention confession. Harvard Civil War Reenactment Club: How better to lead the Union (or Confederacy) into battle than with a cannon? Also consider Harvard Pirate Association (HPA). “Avoid...
...Some would argue that Second Life is merely a computer game that does not have social responsibilities or consequences, and that this extreme valuation of money is merely part of the fun. While Second Life is indeed unreality, it also represents a psychological intersection between reality and fiction. In an interview with CNN earlier this year, Philip Rosendale, founder and CEO of Linden Lab, discussed what he called Second Life’s “plasticity.” He said, “The world in Second Life is so easy to change. It is so plastic that...
...Rosendale went on to cite an example of a man who lost seventy pounds after seeing how easy it was to change outward appearances in Second Life. It is precisely such direct connections between reality and fiction that the “plastic” world of Second Life creates...
...that. Then there are the hardcore - the Uruk-hai of Tolkien readers - who have delved further, into The Silmarillion and beyond, who seriously grok the deep history and elaborate geography and endless mystical genealogies of Middle Earth. Now there's a "new" work of Tolkien fiction called The Children of Húrin, cobbled together by Christopher Tolkien, son of J.R.R., out of manuscripts left behind by his dad. As it happens, it's got something for both of the Tolkien tribes...
...novel has a unique literary character. Its first purpose, like that of all fiction, is to entertain. Yet by having as its subject the spy, the man who goes where others do not, it implicitly assumes a secondary responsibility: to inform. A good spy novel allows the reader to see the world from the perspective of the spy, to peek from the dark shadows and assess it in recognition of its full complexity. Though the advertising for “Body of Lies,” the newest novel from Washington Post columnist David R. Ignatius...