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Harvard, like dozens of other campuses, fell victim to Ms. Adams’ slide show a week ago—given in the ironic location of Quincy Dining Hall—with the gleeful imprimatur of Quincy Co-Master Jayne Loader. To Loader, she is “the most provocative and interesting theorist working in the animal rights field.” That’s one way to put it, but it’s best to let Ms. Adams speak for herself...
...Adams is not a credible academic and her mere appearance at Harvard denigrates the university. At least in this sense, it is pleasing to see that Ms. Adams is a graduate of Yale Divinity School and not of one of Harvard’s. Even if the Quincy co-master has erred in giving Ms. Adams’ an intellectual pedestal to speak, at least we are spared the embarrassment of having produced a graduate capable of such drivel...
...sharing a 3-m by 3-m cell with up to five inmates, 59-year-old Sobhraj is "polite, calm and confident that nothing is going to happen to him," says Superintendent Rana. Shrestha, however, is convinced that this time there is no way out even for the master escapologist. "I saw him and he saw me and I saw something click in him, some fear, some guilt," he says. "Everything in life comes full circle, even for criminals. We could never afford to travel abroad to get him. But, eventually, he came back...
...Many of the street-side booksellers are migrants from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India's poorest states, and are almost illiterate in English. Yet they're surprisingly sophisticated where it counts. They master enough English to memorize a list of significant authors and identify them by their book covers; they're also highly attuned to the tastes of the Indian reading public. Diwakar, a 19-year-old book-hawker, rattles off the names of his top sellers with ease: "Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sidney Sheldon, John Grisham" and, of course, "Harry Potter." They also know that pirated editions...
...imagine a Harvard where seminars and even lectures routinely take place in the Houses. But as every House Master can attest, this will require more House space than we now possess. Why not, if we can, build a House or two just across the River...