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...taxpayers are now going to have to spend millions to prosecute and detain him. The U.S. could wipe out the drug trade tomorrow through legalization and taxation, which would take away the enormous profits earned in illicit trade and reduce theft by addicts who steal to support their habit. The huge sums saved on incarceration and policing could be spent on health care and education...
...ongoing robbery with almost cinematic deftness. These first scenes also give the story a very human tension, making subtle (and not-so-subtle) comparisons, through Deng’s eyes, of Africa and America. Deng confides that since coming to the States, he’s had a habit of telling silent stories to people who slight him—people whom he thinks would act differently if they knew the story of his suffering. Slowly but surely, Deng’s story unfolds through narratives he intends for various people who disappoint him in America. Everything from the happy...
...this is not necessarily the case. These girls came of age in the same culture as my friend's little girl, into a society whose middle-class value system was being transformed, where laws forced religious observance, and the lines between an individual's private values, the force of habit, and social background blurred. But rather than turning out uniformly devout or predictably rebellious, they are more independent than any generation before them, negotiating their way through society, and around hejab, with great competence...
...whose collections of intimate, thoughtful short stories have earned her vast acclaim, explains in the introduction to her newest—and potentially last—collection, “The View From Castle Rock,” that someone in every generation of her family has had a habit of writing long, detailed letters or journals. Moved by these records, Munro has crafted an uneven but poignant collection of penetrating meditations that partially deal with the effects of religion and poverty on lives and attitudes across generations, but mostly focus on the intimate nature of identity, the way every...
...Aliza H. Aufrichtig ’08 is a literature concentrator from Mather House stuck in a box. She tried to break the fourth wall (backwards) by drawing herself into a cartoon, and now can’t seem to break any wall...or her habit of making terrible puns. Since she will be stuck in there for awhile, come visit her on Wednesdays...