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Other readers placed a different value on Friedman's dispatches. His reporting from Lebanon won him a Pulitzer Prize, and his subsequent work in Israel won him another. Friedman, 36, is the Times's chief diplomatic correspondent in Washington. Freed from daily deadlines, he can look back on a period punctuated by excitement and narrow escapes. He had not been in Beirut long before the apartment house in which he was living was destroyed by a bomb; near the end of his stay in Jerusalem, as he was being driven to a farewell lunch by his wife, his car windshield...
...phrase. She can summon descriptive power when she wants it ("Clouds rose up, golden, fisted, dwarfing the islands"). But the very unity of this collection produces a sameness. The reader begins to wonder, Doesn't Minot know anyone who is married, or older than thirtysomething? Doesn't she ever look beyond these modish urban lofts and restaurants? Henry Kissinger once remarked of Singaporean statesman Lee Kuan Yew that he needed a larger country for his talents. Minot, a writer to watch, needs a larger subject...
...revolution," says instructor Anne Grossman, a part owner of the Pennington Jazzercise Center, "we women have been taught that you don't waste time. You have to tell yourself that you're going to do something productive like exercise. A lot of women come because they want to look better. They stay to socialize...
...while I constantly berated the first-yearexperience and sought my own niche with olderfriends, he spoke about the importance of thefirst year, about how much he missed having been afirst-year student at Harvard, about how much Ihad to look forward...
Matt's graduation at the end of my first yearwas yet another crisis in my life. But--notsurprisingly as I look at it from mynow-experienced position--things worked out forthe best. Matt and I spent that summer inWashington and have since drifted slowly apart.But I've found other, wonderful friends sincethen, and I can easily say that each year I'vespent at Harvard has been better than the previousone...