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...work is completely devoid of content. From time to time she makes insightful connections between the authors’ journalized experiences and their literary achievements. For instance, the parallels she suggests between Fuller’s influence on Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter?? and on Alcott’s “Moods” seem to be spot-on. But Cheever only sprinkles in these academic observations and then ignores them to gush scandal, contrive imagined scenes, and give undue importance to an ever-shuffling deck of secondary characters. This ratio...

Author: By Mollie K. Wright, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Transcendentalists' Gossip Feels Soapy | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...Christmas card itself is purchased at the store, but the newsletter is no longer handwritten. In modern America the holiday newsletter is printed on the family’s DeskJet and usually has a festive border around it. But don’t be fooled by this ornament, the letter??s content is a veritable popcorn chain of falsehoods, all strung together with conventional and informal prose...

Author: By Charles R. Drummond iv | Title: A White (Lie) Christmas | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...Carter ordered Iranian students to report to U.S. immigration officials to verify their status, approximately half of the Iranian students at Harvard and MIT signed an open letter refusing to comply.Protesting the government’s “selective harassment,” the students wrote in the letter??which was published in The Crimson—that “the imminent deportation proceedings...represent a classic case of bending the legal system to suit the prevailing political mood of the day.”For Rouhani, however, the policy did not result in significant difficulties...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crisis and Global Tension Held Harvard Hostage | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...flaw in the Ivy League’s recruitment and commitment process stems from the arrangement used instead of the letter of intent. This system relies on what is known as a “likely letter??—a one-way written commitment, mailed by deans of admission to high school seniors who have already made a verbal commitment to a coach. The letter, which can be mailed at almost any date, confirms that the athletes are likely to be admitted come April. But Jeff Orleans, the executive director of the Ivy League, confessed...

Author: By Chris Lincoln | Title: Ivy’s Dark Underside | 4/21/2006 | See Source »

...Vedic Foundation (VF) and the Hindu Education Foundation (HEF) for the California State Board of Education’s review of sixth grade social studies textbooks. The organizations said that the books should be revised to ensure that their depictions of Hinduism instilled pride among followers.But Witzel penned a letter??signed by 47 other scholars—imploring the Board to reject the edits, on the basis that they were “religious-political” and if accepted, would lead to “international educational scandal.”The petition was received...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Letter, Prof Gets Hate E-mail | 3/14/2006 | See Source »

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