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...Cornel West a bigot? Depends on whose standards you’re using. A professional victimologist would immediately red-pencil a statement like this one: “I think in one sense that Larry Summers is the Ariel Sharon of American higher education.” After all, Summers is Harvard’s first Jewish president, and the metaphor seems to hint at Jewish collusion and conspiracy, a lurid pact by powerful Jews to oppress minorities...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cornel West's Low Blow | 5/10/2002 | See Source »

...dots and five strokes for features, but her range outdoes that of many real actresses. Watson could give lessons in the economics of cartoon characterization. "Dumped," has an even more interesting look, with a gray wash, and slightly degraded lines that come either from rough paper or hard pencil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comix About Real World Problems | 5/7/2002 | See Source »

...stopped having friends over. Noah's condition dictated what we ate and when we slept and to a great degree how we lived. We never had fancy furniture because he chewed on the couch cushions and spit on the carpets. He would pull apart anything more complicated than a pencil. I was ashamed of our home and family. Already marked as different by virtue of being Asian American in a predominantly white community, I came to see Noah as an additional stigmatizing mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Brother | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

...largely non-negotiable designs. When community boards voice these concerns, they are often mischaracterized as “obstructionist” because their only recourse is to send Harvard back to the proverbial drawing board. They do this not because of spite, but because the people holding the pencil seldom consult with them before designs are in near-final form...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Forge Ahead With Art Museum | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

When book editor Herman Gollob finally put down his blue pencil in 1995--having spent more than 35 years polishing the works of such authors as Donald Barthelme, James Clavell, Arthur Hailey, Alex Haley, Bill Moyers and Leon Uris--he had the usual fuzzy plans for retirement. He imagined, as many of us do, that he would simply dive into the pile of books he had never read, the videos he had never watched, the CDs he had never heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avon Calling | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

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