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After Harvard: Teach English lit. somewhere in the states
...remember when Brad Wilford ’00 quarterbacked the 1999 squad to 640 yards of total offense en route to a record-setting 63-21 win over Dartmouth. I remember when Neil Rose lit up the Brown secondary last year for a school-record 436 passing yards. I remember how Carl Morris first burst into the limelight in that same game, catching 10 of Rose’s passes for 220 yards and two touchdowns...
It’s been almost 40 years since “Against Interpretation’’ became an iconic text in faddish counteracademic lit-crit, and the big question is how, or why, Sontag has managed to keep a straight face while her peers break loose into genre criticism, hip-hop studies and other stereotypically un-Sontagian fields. Sontag herself has stayed the course, a true cultural diehard, and barely offers a nod of recognition to anything but the beaux-est of beaux-arts. To see the films she mentions you have to go an art house...
...Rumors lit on every tongue last week; the most unsettling focused on Sept. 22. Because Dr. Al-Badr Al-Hazmi, 34, a Saudi national who is being held as a material witness, had made three reservations to fly to San Diego via Denver on that date, people worried that terrorists would hijack another aircraft. (As it turned out, Al-Hazmi's two extra tickets were in the names of his wife and child.) More ornate scenarios had the bad guys finishing off New York City with a suitcase nuke or poisoned water supply. But the day passed, mercifully, without incident...
...confused image: Through the lens of Bobby’s camera, we see a large, multi-faced crystal sphere. The faces of the crystal bend the light that passes through them in dazzling ways, distorting our view of reality and of the photograph lying behind the sphere. Through the lit orb, perception is filtered and altered, and Hearts in Atlantis, more than anything else is a story of filtered and altered perception...