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...trying to resist classification. What do you think about that?Jonathan Carroll: Critics and people who run bookstores like to classify things because it makes their jobs easier: Put this in the mainstream section. This is a fantasy novel, etc. Whenever people ask what “kind?? of books I write I usually smile and say “mixed salads.” In that I mean a good mixed salad has tomatoes, sliced onion, capers, lettuce...lots of different things, covered with a tasty dressing. In my work there are usually a variety of different...
...these prestigious institutions are becoming increasingly difficult to come by. Perhaps this will convince more students to consider other options after graduation, namely serving their country and people through public service, politics, or non-profit volunteering. If President Eliot’s call to “serve thy kind?? refers to human kind, then the past year surely has echoed that sentiment, with the natural disasters in Asia and South America, a global food crisis, various election crises in Africa, ongoing oil hikes, and the threat of recession...
...While a rigid, hierarchical gap between the perceived importance of events on the field of play and events in the classroom was growing only larger, a glaring gap of another kind??despite an initial step by Harvard in the direction of change—has made little in the way of progress since...
It’s been more than 300 years since the noted mutineer pirate John Quelch was hanged on the banks of the Charles River. And while the riverside gallows have long since been dismantled, a new call for harsher punishment of piracy—of the digital kind??was leveled against universities last Friday by the chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property. Rep. Howard L. Berman, a Democrat who represents California’s 28th district, encompassing Hollywood and nearby areas rich in entertainment-based industries, said that...
...play’s shift to Bohemia repositions its action in time as well as in setting. Fifteen years have elapsed since Leontes sent away his infant daughter. Raised by kind??if simple—shepherds, Perdita (Cristi Miles) falls in love with Florizel (James Ryen), the son of Polixenes and Prince of Bohemia. Florizel does not reveal his royal heritage to Perdita, who is likewise unaware of her royalty...