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...about our daily lives and moral dilemmas, engaging us on a psychic level so deep and compelling that reading it left one dazed and hypnotized. In my judgement, Barbarians alone was enough to earn Coetzee literature's ultimate accolade, but there were many more great novels in his pen, foremost among them Life and Times of Michael K (1983), the first of his two Booker Prize winners, and Foe (1986), the story of an Englishwoman who, stranded on a desert island, struggles to communicate with a black slave whose tongue has been cut out. On its face, the novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Veiled Genius | 10/5/2003 | See Source »

First and foremost the boys insist that registering a party is crucial to its success. “Basically a party is fun if it’s well planned and enough people go,” says Corker. With this planning in mind, depending on the size of the party, hosts must fill out the appropriate forms with the House or Freshman Dean’s Office. Larger parties may require a Beverage Authorization Team, and those with alcohol and 150+ guests need a Harvard University Police detail. Charging admission requires a license from the city of Cambridge. Tickets...

Author: By C.l. Griggs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Get the Party Started | 9/25/2003 | See Source »

...wants to attract Harvard diners, it certainly has its work cut out for it. First and foremost, it must differentiate itself from ‘Nochs, which many students regard as the be all and end all of Cambridge pizza establishments. Second, it needs to overcome its location on the oft-neglected stretch of Mass. Ave. between the Yard and Porter Square, which is usually frequented only by the most curious gourmands and Quadlings. After a Friday night visit to Di Mio, however, it quickly became apparent that the new gourmet pizzeria has what it takes to overcome these obstacles...

Author: By Christine Ajudua, Brian M. Goldsmith, Kristi L. Jobson, and Christopher Schonberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Welcome Back | 9/25/2003 | See Source »

...council brings together 11 of the nation’s foremost experts on forensic science and the death penalty, including a Harvard Medical School professor and a Harvard Law School graduate...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Aguero, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Romney Forms Council To Advise on Death Penalty | 9/24/2003 | See Source »

...14th century carpenter, lashed 47 gunpowder rockets to a chair affixed with kites, ignited them and vanished in a plume of smoke, never to be heard from again. The modern program traces its roots to the 1950s, when the U.S. deported Qian Xuesen, one of its foremost rocket scientists at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, for being a suspected red. Qian returned to China, helped reverse-engineer a Russian R-2 rocket (an improved version of the infamous German V-2) left behind by Soviet advisers and eventually oversaw the launch of China's first satellite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Leap Skyward | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

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