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...suggest is a topical treatment of an ominous, dark, and tenuous subject. Wings outstretched and beak ever so sharp, the dark bird is fierce and threatening. Yet the blotches of water soften the animal’s shape and remind us that this is, alas, a work of fiction. Nobel laureate Doris Lessing’s name is megalomaniacally scrawled in regal yellow in the center of the cover, leaving little room for the actual title of the book. Over-compensating for something, Doris? The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz Nothing says...
...importance, both in symbol and in practice, of this plan should be under estimated. Given the current public atmosphere toward climate change, both domestically and globally, it is imperative that Harvard throw its institutional weight behind such emission policies. Al Gore ’69 just won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change, and currently, the United States is engaged in a global climate summit in Bali, which is looking past Kyoto to the next generation of climate regulations. There is no better time for Harvard to show publicly its support for these measures. Besides demonstrating...
...Berlin. There he meets Jozef de Heer, an Auschwitz survivor who persuades Andermans to write down his life story, a gripping tale of escape and betrayal in the wartime German capital. Like nearly everyone in the book, De Heer isn't what he seems. Neither is Paul Goldfarb, a Nobel-prizewinning physicist who fled Nazi Germany to help develop the atom bomb at Los Alamos and is now back at Potsdam. Or Donatella, a sexy Italian physicist who comes on to Andermans even as she attains fusion with Goldfarb. Between trysts, she and the Nobelist are pursuing a subatomic particle...
...professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston College of Management, presented to about 30 students at the workshop. It was the first such event organized by the international relations student group this year. Najam, who will represent the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change when the organization receives its Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway on Dec. 10, said it is dangerous to separate international development and environmental preservation, which he said is a mistake made by many people today. “Our world is a third world country,” he added, pointing...
...thrill. Who knew that sneaking a plastic bottle of water up to the room—40 million of the little terrors are thrown out everyday!—could feel so good?I’m pretty sure that a former Dunster House resident and Oscar winner (okay, Nobel Peace Prize winner, too) is to blame for the fact that this green monster has become my fourth roommate. I hold the former Vice President and his nifty PowerPoint presentation responsible for it all: for the pile of recycling-bound newspapers that now towers over my desk; for a national...