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Wilson pursued her undergraduate studies at Harvard’s Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS), and was one of only a handful of students from her class to graduate with a bachelors in science degree.
PARIS—My first morning in Paris, I decided to start off on the right foot and take a jog through le Jardin du Luxembourg. This is a park created by Marie de’ Medici to remind her of her home in Italy, a park so strictly groomed...
Although the play is primarily a comedy, Bennett’s lines require an audience of literati. In just under three hours, spectators will hear about Orwell’s social theory, Wittgenstein’s philosophy, a handful of Auden, the unavoidable Shakespeare, and others. All of this fits...
The code of ethics has been put to the test several times in the past, most notably during the 1980s, when several Irish Republican Army prisoners staged hunger strikes in British prisons. A handful died, and the episode was seen as evidence of Margaret Thatcher's toughness. At Gitmo, however...
Gilding the lily - casting the everyday and unexceptional in the most grandiose terms - has always been a weakness of boomers, who in their youth would sometimes compare Captain Marvel comic books to the Sistine Chapel or call Yoko Ono an artist. Overstatement has been George W. Bush's prime rhetorical...