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...Professor Menand’s unusual breadth of interest goes with that perception of the way that the modern university is and ought to be flowing: not crystallizing into self-contained compartments or enclaves, but engaging in all different forms of outreach,” said Buell...
...Bowker reports that a Soviet spy had been tailing the politically unreliable couple for months. Moscow's betrayal of the Spanish revolution turned Orwell against communism and the manipulation of language: "In Spain, in fact, I saw history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various 'party lines.'" His stinging 1938 memoir Homage to Catalonia brought him vilification from the left. The fearful Orwell borrowed a revolver from Hemingway. He and Eileen took a house on a remote Scottish island, raised goats and chickens, and adopted an infant boy they...
...history--the idea that individual leaders can have an outsize impact on the course of events. For now, he is full of optimism and enticed by the prospect of success. "A lot of Presidents have tried," Bush said as Air Force One left Aqaba. "Every President should try. We ought to use the prestige of America to try for peace... [And] maybe history is such that now we can achieve it." Even if Bush suspects that the road isn't likely to lead to everlasting peace, he at least knows he has to start traveling it. --With reporting by Massimo...
...those deemed to be the culprits in Sun's death. They included a nurse alleged to have ordered other inmates to beat Sun, and the inmates accused of complying. But the major accomplice in Sun's death got off free. The bulk of the blame for Sun's death ought to fall on a little-known system of administrative detention?that is, detention outside of the criminal justice system?whereby Chinese citizens can be locked up merely for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. "Custody and repatriation," as the system is euphemistically called, exists to enforce laws...
...tell that "Shrimpy and Paul" may not be for the Tom Clancy reader in your life? Well, it ought to be. "Shrimpy and Paul" works like a delightful palate refresher of nonsense that sharpens up taste buds long since dulled by greasy, unhealthy fare. Though it makes no conventional sense, "Shrimpy and Paul" is easy to read thanks to Marc Bell's sure hand at story structure. Each of the three main stories (along with the other one-page strips and ephemera that make up this collection) follow a narrative as solid as an Abbott and Costello picture. Shrimpy...