Word: lit
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Peter Blake: I went to law school, which just seemed like the typical refuge for a Hist. and Lit. major who didn’t want to go work for Goldman Sachs. Then I got to law school and I realized, “Oh my God, what am I doing?”...I took a couple of undergraduate creative writing classes and I persuaded this professor named James Vorenberg [’48]...to let me write my third-year paper...as a creative third-year paper. I sort of wrote a spec script...
...were a Hist. and Lit. concentrator at Harvard, which means you must have read many Western classics. Did anyone in particular inspire you to write crime or medical drama...
When Taiwan's first lady Wu Shu-chen was indicted on corruption and forgery charges on Nov. 3, opponents of President Chen Shui-bian lit fireworks and popped champagne corks, sure that his resignation would soon follow. That celebration is now looking premature. Over the past three weeks Chen has shored up support among members of his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP); last Friday, DPP lawmakers thwarted - for the third time - a recall motion that would have triggered a national referendum on Chen's ouster...
...Reading Wars of the '90s, the U.S. has largely gone red. Remember the Reading Wars? In the '80s, educators embraced "whole language" as the key to teaching kids to love reading. Instead of using "See Dick and Jane run" primers, grade-school teachers taught reading with authentic kid lit: storybooks by respected authors, like Eric Carle (Polar Bear, Polar Bear). They encouraged 5- and 6-year-olds to write with "inventive spelling." It was fun. Teachers felt creative. The founders of whole language never intended it to displace the teaching of phonics or proper spelling, but that's what happened...
...wide receiver Chandler Henley, who has a team-best 37 catches for 511 yards and two touchdowns.No matter how the teams look on paper, experienced observers of the nation’s greatest rivalries know to disregard the data. “You can look at it from a lit of different angles,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “But it all still comes back to pride. Any great rivalry is a pride game.”—Staff writer Madeleine I. Shapiro can be reached at mshapiro@fas.harvard.edu