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...character sketches tucked away in their hard drives and desk drawers. Some destroy their work themselves; others ask family members to do so; still others designate literary executors to handle their papers and dole them out to universities or libraries. (One hopes that the recently deceased and uncommonly prolific John Updike may have taken the last route.) But such wishes aren't always carried out to the letter. Emily Dickinson, who saw fewer than a dozen poems published during her lifetime, instructed her sisters to burn all of her correspondence and verse - orders that were only half followed. Franz Kafka...
Perhaps it's a cold truth, but sometimes death burnishes an author's reputation. It was only after she committed suicide that Sylvia Plath's most affecting, well-known works came out, Ariel, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems. John Kennedy Toole's Southern gothic tragicomedy A Confederacy of Dunces was unpublished and gathering dust until Toole's mother put it in the hands of Walker Percy years after her son's suicide. The 2008 publication in English of Stieg Larsson's critically acclaimed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo came four years after he passed...
...Harvard men’s basketball season—which doubled as the last games of the collegiate careers of seniors Andrew Pusar, Drew Housman, and Evan Harris—the Crimson turned in one of its best performances of the season to down archrival Yale, 69-59, at John J. Lee Amphitheatre on Saturday.The triumph over the Bulldogs (13-15, 8-6 Ivy) was especially sweet for the three seniors, as Harvard (14-14, 6-8 Ivy) had lost its last seven games in the rivalry—a drought that began with the senior class?...
Harvard Track and Field competed hard and yielded some great results in the IC4A and ECAC Championships this past Saturday and Sunday. Of the men, who competed in the 20-event IC4A Championships at Boston University’s track, standouts included sprinter John Dingus and pole vaulter Nico Weiler, both freshmen. Dingus qualified for the finals of the 400-meter dash, finishing ninth overall at 48:19 and breaking his own school record. He finished eighth in the finals at 49:43. Weiler finished his event impressively at first overall, vaulting 5.00 meters. The rookie was pleased with...
...Quinnipiac poll, Dodd's approval ratings came in at a dismal 41%; that makes him even less popular than Joe Lieberman, the independent junior Senator who left the Democratic Party after losing his primary race and then crossed what was left of his party lines to endorse John McCain for President. "It's a legitimate question to ask; I'm certainly aware of [the polls]," Dodd says. "But my answer to it is: do your work. And look, that stuff last fall was terribly unpopular - the banking things, the assistance to the automobile institutions. We have never seen mail...