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Whenever any student organization or school within the University wishes to invite a well-known scholar, government official, or public figure to visit and speak here, the University Marshal's office is the first necessary stopping point.
Ringed by the run-down buildings of Chicago's South Side, Harold Washington Elementary is the picture of a frayed inner-city school. Eighty-five percent of the students live below the poverty level. And a security guard keeps students inside--and intruders out--once the morning bell rings. But...
The keen depiction of a lost Pakistani generation will invite comparisons with F. Scott Fitzgerald, though perhaps a closer analogue would be the late Robert Bingham, who did for overly rich young New Yorkers what Hamid is doing for their Pakistani counterparts. And given the focus on substance abuse, one...
I am ashamed to be associated with pop culture this week. In fact, these past seven days might just drive me to become... edgy. I should go out and buy horned-rimmed glasses and a matching smoking jacket, start hanging out at the Signet, watch Fellini in my spare time...
But his advisers asked him to take it out, on the reasonable ground that they did not want to invite people to think of McCain as an old man. And that changed everything. "But it's true," he replied. "I have grown old." His advisers pleaded with him; he refused...