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...last weeks of Kurt Cobain's life were filled with turmoil and anguish -- and gossip. Rumors floated through the music industry that the singer- songwriter's band, Nirvana, was breaking up; that Cobain, who had survived a tranquilizer-induced coma just six weeks earlier, had suffered another overdose. The stories seemed to be justified when the group unexpectedly backed out of headlining the Lollapalooza tour this summer...
Unlike Plath, who found eternal youth, those who shared her life have had to weather the ravages of time, not to mention public opprobrium. Janet Malcolm, the latest writer to mine the Plath myth, compares the spread of gossip about the poet to "an oil spill in the devastation it wreaked among Plath's survivors, who to this day are like birds covered with black ooze." No one has been more fouled by the Plath oobleck than Hughes. In The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (Knopf; 208 pages; $23), Malcolm chronicles how generations of feminist writers have reviled...
...while most Harvard students interrupted during dinner this week were discussing paper topics or the latest house gossip, a few select tables were engaging in an equally hallowed Harvard tradition: griping about the food...
...appropriate and entertaining topic for the tenth of March. It's a limbo period--with winter pretty much over and spring not quite yet here (not to mention midterms)--so, with our usual penchant for apt weather comparisons, we thought of the ever-fascinating topic of spying. (And gossip, which is Harvard's equivalent of this noble institution, but that comes later...
...having discarded our CIA dreams, we turn to the next best thing--uh, gossip. We don't have any advice on that either, sorry. (It's midterms. Who cares what your roomates are doing?) Instead, we leave you with this profound thought to digest over breakfast: where have we gone in the past 25 years? Think about...