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Thus collectors must be interesting, no? No, it turns out, in Geoff Nicholson's cheerfully loopy comic novel Hunters & Gatherers (Overlook; 215 pages). Nicholson's hero, a feckless would-be writer named Steve Geddes, has unwisely taken a publisher's advance to produce a book on collectors. But the collector collector finds that his subjects, though daft, are stunningly boring. An obsessed gatherer of sounds has recorded utter silence in Namibia, the Sahara and the Australian outback. One human rodent, who promises to show Geddes the world's largest beer-can collection, leads him to a completely empty room. Curses...
...side. At one time, this was the Church. Now that we are more secularized, preventing mental illness and violence against women has become the new mask worn by the people seeking to control our thoughts. We are all so eager to guard against these possibilities that we overlook the fact that people are asking us to give up our right. As aspiring journalists, the Crimson staff ought to be very careful before it condemns any sort of visual or printed information as detrimental to viewer's well-being. Does pornography cause violence and mental strain? I believe not, but even...
Although the Crimson did not overlook the sixth-ranked Quakers, winning 9-0, the match was little more than a warmup for Sunday's battle. Junior co-captain Tal Ben-Shachar admits the team "had prepared for the Princeton match over the whole season...
Thus collectors must be interesting, no? No, it turns out, in Geoff Nicholson's cheerfully loopy comic novel Hunters & Gatherers (Overlook; 215 pages; $21.95). Nicholson's hero, a feckless would-be writer named Steve Geddes, has unwisely taken a publisher's advance to produce a book on collectors. But the collector collector finds that his subjects, though daft, are stunningly boring. An obsessed gatherer of sounds has recorded utter silence in Namibia, the Sahara and the Australian Outback. One human rodent, who promises to show Geddes the world's largest beer-can collection, leads him to a completely empty room...
Rent control in Cambridge may have its problems, but one cannot overlook the consequences that may follow the abolition of rent control without providing for any kind of safety net. Cambridge may become unaffordable for many of its current residents, among them many of Harvard's graduate students...