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...more than 20 years, working- and middle-class Americans have seen their jobs go overseas, wages diminish and savings disappear; they've had retirement funds stolen by companies going bankrupt or merging, and health care made unavailable as a result of cost. Suggesting that borrowing to live is the cause of the Wall Street collapse when the 400 richest people in the U.S. have as much money as several million average citizens shows ignorance of the greed and avarice controlling this country. Paul A. Heller, Washington, Michigan...
...IMPAC Dublin Literary Award last year for his novel Out Stealing Horses, as well as an even more elusive prize for a work in translation: critical acclaim in the U.S. The novel's success was all the more surprising given the quiet nature of Petterson's storytelling. His characters live mostly inside their heads; outside, they can be found in small villages in Scandinavia, drinking, chopping wood, fighting, reading, remembering. It's hardly the stuff of flashy, cosmopolitan fiction-without-borders...
...college kids spent evenings analyzing poetry in professors' quarters. Research indicates that students are more likely to be satisfied with school and become campus leaders if they spend time with faculty. Which is why the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville created Core Connections, which lets mostly freshmen opt to live in two dorms where attendance at faculty-planned events is required. The University of Maine now makes all frosh live together in dorms with new support networks. Ditto for Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., where first-years are also encouraged to go on hikes with the profs who lead their...
...Fifteen Minutes (FM): You’re the youngest person ever to be a staff writer for Saturday Night Live. Is this going to be your full time...
...anticipation of Harvard’s upcoming “Sustainability Week.” The Humanities Center at Harvard hosted the discussion, which humanities professor and director of the Center Homi K. Bhabha moderated. The panel explored the role food plays in people’s lives as nourishment, as an expression of care, and as social and economic therapy. Before the dialogue began, guests were invited to eat from a smorgasbord of sustainable produce piled high on tables extending around the perimeter of the room. Bhabha opened the discussion by stressing the importance of sustainability as not only...