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Over the last four years, first as a staff writer, then (and now) as a columnist, and finally as the editor of this page, I have tried to contribute to some of this work. But my time at Harvard is nearly through, and this is the last column I will write for The Crimson, a little newspaper that has taken up an unreasonable amount of my time and energy (and that, it must also be said, I love dearly...
...course, which does not involve HLS credit, features Web page briefs from President Clinton's defense team and Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr...
...trial opened last Friday and will continue through the week of May 1-8, when every juror will be asked to submit an opinion via an on-line "jury room," according to an introductory message posted at the "Jury Trial in Cyberspace" home-page...
...must have seemed like a good idea at the onset: Why not retell the mythic story of Orpheus and Eurydice, this time casting the principals as international pop/rock stars? Ergo Salman Rushdie's sixth novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Henry Holt; 575 pages; $27.50), which recounts the fabulous lives and careers of the singer-composer Ormus Cama and his beloved co-vocalist Vina Apsara, as remembered by their mutual friend, the news photographer Umeed ("Rai") Merchant. His opening sentence foretells Vina's death--she was swallowed up by an earthquake in Mexico in 1989--and Rai presents himself...
...novelist currently writing in English does so with more energy, intelligence and allusiveness than Rushdie. Nearly every page of The Ground Beneath Her Feet offers something to arrest a devoted reader's attention: puns and wordplays galore ("Ma, keep mum"; "Where was a penthouse pent?") and enough literary echoes--of Joyce; Yeats; Frost; Dante; oh hell, of nearly everybody--to keep graduate students on the prowl through these pages for years. But for all of Rushdie's brilliance, the parts of this novel seem greater than the sum of its whole...