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...same day I was reading Ann Coulter's book, I read Margaret Talbot's excellent New Yorker piece from last week on Oriana Fallaci, the Coulteresque Italian journalist who has written that the "art of invading and conquering and subjugating" is "the only art which the sons of Allah have always excelled." Fallaci has said that Muslims "breed like rats," and she has complained that Muslims have left "yellow streaks of urine that profaned the millenary marbles of the Baptistery" in Florence. As it happens, it's illegal in much of Europe to say such outlandish things: Fallaci currently faces...
...Margaret M. Rossman ’06, who was a Crimson deputy editorial chair in 2005, is an English concentrator in Mather House...
...myself felt injured by the narrative,” Randall said. “My book was the equivalent of Prissy slapping Scarlett.”Writing the parody was a way for her—and for her readers—to cope with the trauma of reading Margaret Mitchell’s book and watching the movie it spawned. Randall explores the abandonment a black girl feels when her biological mother takes care of a white girl.“Mammy was my Mama. Even though she let me go, I miss her,” Randall writes...
...Class of 1981, the first weeks of spring came in a blaze.A local Vietnamese immigrant attempted to set a visiting scholar on fire in late April. When the Margaret Full House went up in flames the following fall, a member of its board of directors blamed neighborhood terrorists. And one local teenager set fire to Harvard Stadium in the closing days of the ’81 school year.Most of the stadium’s massive concrete amphitheater was left unharmed, but the arsonist found easy kindling in the wooden press box. The ancient structure had played home to decades...
...roommate, Reginald E. Greene ’56 remembers Daniloff as serious, cordial, and courtly. “He is like Ashley in ‘Gone With the Wind.’ He looks a little like him. He behaves like him,” Greene says. Unlike Margaret Mitchell’s characters, Daniloff describes himself as particularly un-romantic. “I am not a nostalgic.” “Harvard is a part of my life. I contribute to Harvard, but I give directed contributions,” Daniloff says.He will...