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...Hospital for Children (gosh), to whom Barrie bequeathed the royalties of Peter Pan in 1929, had more bankable names than hers to pick from. She jokes that fame has eluded her because her name is hard to pronounce (say Ma-cork-run) and has to be printed small to fit on the spine. Fame may find her in early October with the media blitz that will accompany Peter Pan in Scarlet when it's published in English in the U.K. and the U.S., and in translation in markets across Europe and Asia. Low profile or not, the fact is McCaughrean...
...previous occupants of their room. My sadness derives partly from the fact that those of us who lived in Mass. Hall will be erased from the rolls. Of course, I’m not suggesting that the administration shouldn’t do as it sees fit: firm, dynamic executive leadership is a must for any organization, especially one, like Harvard, that is looking aggressively into the future. Nor am I suggesting a blind adherence to tradition. I’m simply noting, with a twinge of sadness, the definitive ending of a chapter of my life, a severing...
...Yard may have been subdued over intersession, but the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) remained hard at work. For those odds and ends of crime that seem to fit nowhere else, here’s a compilation of this week’s wacky and inane illicit activity...
...people around the world who are all calling people in the U.S. You may not know whom they're calling in the U.S., but you know the person overseas making the call is a bad guy. Most Americans would say, gee, that's unusual. But FISA doesn't fit that situation. So you need new legislation...
...politically incorrect, and also inaccurate, to use the loaded phrase "clash of civilizations" to describe big stuff like the war in Iraq or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But the burgeoning international conflict over a series of cartoons in a provincial Danish newspaper caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad seems to fit the term with depressing accuracy. It's a case of the hard-fought right to free expression banging up against Muslims' conviction that states ought to punish anyone who insults the Prophet. And so far, all the protagonists appear ready to ride their principles to Armageddon...