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...Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL) presented Moses with the award at the keynote event of its 17th annual conference, which brought more than 1,500 college students to Cambridge from across the country, India, Bulgaria and the United Kingdom...
...More than 100 Harvard students have volunteered to host conference participants, some of whom are attending from Canada, the United Kingdom and Israel, and some undergraduates will lead workshops, Smith said...
...rest of his life. "I hate what people do to people," he says. "I have no armor against it. It's always fresh to me. I can't stand it." That anger has given birth to five novels that attracted a cult following, but the recently published Kingdom of Shadows (Random House; 239 pages; $24.95) is provoking mainstream attention...
This sense of outrage lurks in the shadows of his texts. In Kingdom, Hungarian emigre Nicholas Morath is drawn ever deeper into clandestine missions he doesn't understand to stop his country's drift into collaboration with the Nazis. Though Furst sees himself as a political novelist, he has chosen a storyteller's genre, and his books do not stand on a soapbox. His tales have got leaner as he keeps refining them down, explaining less, saying more in fewer words. While there is a moment in every book when some character cuts to the bone to pinpoint the evil...
...vanity bio of a 1920s Lithuanian, the essays of French photographer Brassai, old Paris Baedekers, and so on. He constantly makes notes of telling details: the cabaret performer with a red light bulb at his crotch that Furst once spotted in a book by Cyrus Sulzberger turns up in Kingdom...