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...likely to be so. Even if the subject's friend's friend's friend--entirely unknown to the subject--was happy, the subject still got a 5.6% boost. The happiness chain also worked in the other direction, radiating from the subject out to her friends. (See the Top 10 late night gags...
Though the trial started in September, thanks to procedural delays, Jaruzelski finished reading his 200-page opening statement only in late November. In court he appears fragile but speaks firmly. His defense rests on the argument that with radicals threatening to take over the Solidarity movement and Moscow watching closely, he had no choice but to order the crackdown. Soviet troops put down a popular rebellion in Hungary in 1956 and destroyed a reformist Czech regime in 1968. Jaruzelski was acutely aware that Poland could suffer a similar fate. Martial law was a "dramatically difficult decision," but it "saved Poland...
...this list, J. M. Coetzee is the youngest—and the most melancholy. In his famous 1999 novel “Disgrace,” he showed the late-life education of a literature professor forced, in a post-literate age, to teach “Communications.” He returned to the theme in his more recent novel—it was released on Dec. 27, 2007, to avoid end-of-the-year-list mania on the blogs—“Diary of a Bad Year.” More humane and generous than...
...writer alive has been so fully canonized as V. S. Naipaul. He won the Booker, was knighted, had a great masterpiece published (“Bend In the River”), and won the Nobel Prize (too late, he claimed, for it to make him happy). This year he received the compliment of an accomplished warts-and-all biography (lesser writers receive praise while they’re living, and are damned when they’re dead). But he is miserable. Every time he writes a novel he claims it will be his last—because novels...
Although Lamont will officially assume her post in late January, Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Judith D. Singer joked that like the Obama transition team, Lamont will have to “hit the ground running” in light of the current financial crisis and the fact that Harvard lags behind peer institutions in faculty diversity...