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In Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle, January is harvest time. It is also a time when members of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration check the skies for signs of bad weather, hoping that nature will spoil the lucrative crop of opium poppies that are the economic mainstay of the...
One unfortunate side-effect of this limited appeal which editors stress is intrinsic to any literature or arts journal is a difficulty in generating revenue for the magazine. "People don't believe in it much as an advertising medium," says Murphy. This perception and a relative drop in alumni support...
Readers who hope to find Oates' usual steamy sex scenes will have to get through some 380 pages of prissiness before reaching one, unless the defloration of the dressmaker's dummy can be reckoned as steamy. Octavia's lovemaking with her fetishist, involving half a dozen or...
Admissions deans and test-makers alike say they are aware that both SAT and Achievement scores are limited as indicators of intrinsic talent. As a result, Harvard stress a network of factors including grades, recommendations, interviews, and application essays. Adds Dartmouth's Jaeger "If we were sure that numbers tell...
The play is occasionally shrill and familiar; and the ending, in which the protagonist cries "Give me a chance to find some intrinsic value" and is whisked away by a deux ex machina, lacks the delicacy of the play's best moments. But at least it points to a kind...