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...hero, adding layer upon layer of sometimes miscellaneous information, in vaguely chronological order. Though Proust always insisted his masterwork was not a roman à clef, Davenport-Hines shows the parallels between Proust and his fictional narrator, real figures and the fabricated ones. Born in Paris to a rich Jewish mother and a Catholic physician father, Proust was a nervous, asthmatic child who grew up to be, in Davenport-Hines' phrase, "the most famous valetudinarian in literary history." His mother was his life's obsession. His father, ironically, made his reputation studying emotional disorders. Proust did military service before throwing himself...
...have a great deal of freedom. They are free to destroy Buddhist shrines in Afghanistan without a word of protest from Muslim nations. They are free to deny non-Muslims the opportunity to worship freely, as in Saudi Arabia. They are free to deny the Holocaust and vilify the Jewish religion. Yet publish a few cartoons, and the Muslim world is aflame. Perhaps Islamic leaders will now acknowledge that their actions over many years have been deeply offensive to other religions and take steps toward a more balanced and sensitive approach. Michael Renan Cape Town...
While Summers is usually considered Harvard’s first Jewish president, his predecessor, Neil L. Rudenstine, had two Jewish grandparents from Ukraine. Rudenstine’s mother, however, hailed from an Italian Catholic family...
...autumn following Summers’ speech on the Israel divestment movement in September 2002, talk of anti-Semitism reemerged after the English Department invited Tom Paulin to speak at Harvard. Paulin, an Irish poet, had told an English-language newspaper in Egypt that Jewish settlers on the West Bank “should be shot dead...
Summers’ religion was also brought to light last Friday when Bernard Steinberg, president and director of Harvard Hillel, released a “Dear Larry” letter thanking Summers for his “unapologetic identification with the Jewish people...