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...care of the soundtrack in a far more accurate way than I can by taking notes.” Gay Talese considers the device sacrilegious: “I espouse patience in listening, trying to capture what the other person is thinking, trying to see the world from that person??s point of view.” Two other reporters describe the professional and legal safety of having a transcript, should you need it. Multiply these four opinions by the number of other writers in the book and you can sense the difficulty—or, rather...
...project altogether, Eggers said, he realized he would only be able to “achieve something great, make an impact” by telling Valentino’s story in the form of a novel. “That sense of duty that you have to a person??telling it well was everything. Just telling it wasn’t good enough,” Eggers said. Valentino explained his motivation in seeking someone out to help him write his autobiography and detail his experiences as a refugee. “This is a story...
...most modern Harvard men are. Alternatively, visiting a psychiatrist to try to pinpoint the reason she feels the need to talk about her menstrual cycle with people she runs into on the street might be useful. Visiting a strip club is not going to help her become a fuller person??unless she’s looking for a backup plan to investment banking, in which case she should make a detour to the gym, too. The only value in FemSex, it seems, is in parody...
...Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, have adopted a confrontational management style, attempting to force through initiatives with a blunt stick. If we, as observers of Harvard University, learned anything from the rapid downfall of former University President Summers, it is that no man—now, no person??can push Harvard in his or her own direction as its leader...
Unfortunately, not all boycotts fit this mold, and often they are founded on illogical premises or myopic hatred for “big business.” For now, my goal remains to avoid supporting questionable corporations, and hopefully other people feel the same way. One person??s boycott is a drop in the bucket, but a collective protest might be enough to make it overflow...