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...points to the richness of Shelley's text, and its uncanny ability to inspire horror. The novel is surprisingly unassuming, the first work of a 19 year-old writer who was to have few other lasting successes. But it is powerfully midwifed by the godfathers of the Romantic movement, Lord Byron and Percy Blythe Shelley, and Mary Shelley's own traumatic family experiences. The frustrations of her position--her selfimposed exile with the radical, and still-married, Shelley, her confinement in the home and her failed pregnancies--are expressed in the passion with which she narrates the creation, birth...
Doing so simply is not trendy. And Lord knows, no Harvard student would ever dare stray from the crowd...
...Harvard College degree costs so much is that the student is paying for the marching band and the football team and room and board...[Extension' students are in the same classes with the same professors. It's the difference between going to a boutique like Bloomingdale's or Lord and Taylor for designer cloths or getting them cheap off the rack at a discount store...
...been transformed from a purely economic institution to a political one, Britain has been slow to adapt, said Lord Roy Jenkins, chancellor of Oxford University...
...problem with altruism as the prime mover of foreign policy is that altruism is a sentiment, not a strategy. And to paraphrase Lord Palmerston, America has no permanent sentiments, only permanent interests. The Emir of Kuwait, living high on the hog in Saudi Arabia waiting to be returned to his palace by American troops, was no more worthy or sympathetic a figure than Jean-Bertrand Aristide. But it did not matter much. America had more than altruistic reasons for going into Kuwait. Real, tangible, important things were at stake: oil, nuclear weapons, the future of the Middle East...