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...great South African drama deflated, Coetzee seemed to turn to his private life for inspiration. His son died in a mysterious fall from a building; he wrote The Master of Petersburg, a novel about a father similarly stricken. His ex-wife died of cancer, and he produced Age of Iron, with some of the most harrowing descriptions of pain ever written. In 1999 came Disgrace, the tale of a white liberal academic hounded out of his job by the gender police, humiliated by criminals and finally relegated to a life of cringing abjection on the outermost margins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Veiled Genius | 10/5/2003 | See Source »

This September, Astha Thapa ’07 traded in the spectacular summits of the Himalayan mountains and sloping green hills that have surrounded her since her childhood for the flat lawns and wrought iron fences of Harvard Yard...

Author: By Margaretta E. Homsey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nepal Native Adjusts To Life at Harvard | 9/30/2003 | See Source »

Everyone’s favorite iron-fisted neo-con/boy next door Cedrick “Skippy” MacGregor ’04 was overheard at Temple Bar on Saturday explaining his continued support for the recent course of U.S. Foreign Policy.  Says Skippy, “Anyone who has no respect for the lives of others or of themselves, well, we should just kill ‘em all.”  No word on whether or not Skippy has accepted the Bush Administration’s offer to serve as the first Secretary...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gossip Guy | 9/25/2003 | See Source »

Liquid-fuel rockets Band-Aids Synthetic insulin Polygraph Scotch tape Kleenex Iron lungs Bubble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Big Thing | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

Both rovers make the most of their size, carrying a full load of instruments, many of them attached to an agile mobile arm. A thermal-emission spectrometer will study background radiation for clues to rock composition; another spectrometer will look for minerals and iron; a third will emit X rays and alpha particles, which will also reveal what rocks are made of. More dramatic, a rock-abrasion tool equipped with diamond-tipped grinding wheels will gouge samples open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Closing In on Mars | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

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