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...Adams house. A native of Southern California, she transferred last fall from UCLA and is still in the process of adjusting to snow, polo shirts, and the slightly eccentric Harvard social scene. On alternate Wednesdays, her column, “Quips and Quirks,” will offer insight on undergraduate life...
Economist Gary Becker and Appellate Court Judge Richard Posner are one good example of how this can happen: their blog is a widely-read source of valuable political insight. But The Daily Kos is a more interesting case: its author, Markos Zuniga, isn’t a professor or a famous judge—he’s just some guy with good ideas, and yet his site is seen by thousands and thousands of eyes every...
...writer-performer understands that a movie company working in the Third World is a colonial microcosm. Its technology is imperious in its imperatives; its largesse inevitably provokes all sorts of mutually exploitative muddles with the locals. This is a valid, if modest, insight, and Gray projects himself agreeably as a rational naif. But The Killing Fields took up themes far transcending show-biz silliness. It was about the 1975 fall of America's Cambodian client state to the genocidal revolutionaries of the Khmer Rouge. Gray's attempt to deal wryly with themes on this scale finally fails...
TIME's special report provided great insight into the minds of young teenagers today. As an adult, I'm aware that many people argue that our teens are more troubled and troublemaking than when we were growing up. That argument is a poor excuse for our failure to meet children's needs. Kids' behavior is as much a response to adults' repugnance as a cause for it. Your stories portrayed teenagers as complex individuals who will live up to the expectations we set for them. Let's set them high...
...today. We didn't have iPods, cell phones or other wireless devices. Kids grow up so fast now, and have become a lot more mature in this fast-paced, high-tech world. The first-person essays by the 13-year-olds you published were very impressive. They showed honesty, insight and a high level of writing. Those young authors had a personal story to tell and are trying to find and define themselves, just as we all are, even if we are way past...