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...tenure item appeared at the end of the tenth paragraph of Roy's piece, the majority of which focused on an incident between Martin and a Wellesley student. When the student challenged Martin about academic matters, the professor allegedly called the student a "racist" and a "bigot...
...children's book would be merely a paragraph of declarative sentences without the art: the most important part of the stew. Although there are as many illustration styles as there are ways to mess up a room, Wade Zahares' work looks fresh and sprightly, perhaps because this is his first book for kids. There's nothing to the story: a girl and her mom go to the city on a train and pass a whole lot of scenery (or window music). But the densely colorful, chalky pictures make the story a journey worth remembering. No wonder kids love trains...
...Harvard is jumping on the bandwagon of Mandela's worldwide fame and political success, attempting to obliterate that shameful history. It is both telling and amusing that the University Gazette (Sept. 24) managed to prepare a 28-paragraph front-page story without ever mentioning the protracted controversy over Harvard's South African investments and the stand of Harvard's governing boards throughout Mr. Mandela's long years in prison...
...finished writing the last paragraph, a sensation like poisoned gas began to wraith around inside my chest--a sick green glow, the lightly radioactive foretaste of something awful. Then a vise beneath my breastbone tightened...and tightened...and tightened, a slow-motion black implosion of the body's core. I had a heart attack. Quite a surprise...
...years ago have made 28 my lucky number, orange (from the imminent Halloween) my favorite color and October somehow a poignant month. Arbitrariness and coincidence take on meaning and inform the temporal map through which I navigate my life. Twenty-eight is one signpost, autumn another and the paragraph on Scorpio in Cosmo's horoscope a third. That's why I have a responsibility to reconfirm this arbitrary meaning for myself each year by celebrating on my birthday no matter what reading, what thesis, or what application is waiting...