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...FAIR to criticize an amateur production for being amateurish? It wasn't a good sign that I began to ponder this question but a few minutes into the Leverett House Arts Society's production of Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July. At least I had a long time--the rest of the play--to come up with an answer...
While University officials ponder their response to the two-week-old request, the undergraduates involved in the effort said they will step up pressure on the governing body to open one of its November meetings...
DURING THE EARLY years of the Second World War, Vladimir Nabokov wrote a short story called "The Enchanter," describing a cynical jeweler's predatory lust for an enticing violet-eyed girl of 12. Dissatisfied with the piece, Nabokov abandoned the manuscript. But he continued to ponder over the theme, finally returing to it 10 years later when he wrote Lolita...
...Harvard. Lazarus dealt with the doubts and worries that some Harvard students feel, yet in writing with that goal in mind, he neglected to show that for every Harvard student of Asian descent who has such preoccupations, there is another Asian American here at Harvard who does not ponder his "Asian-ness versus American-ness...
...concern. Says NBC Anchorman Tom Brokaw: "The drug story reached critical mass. It kept building up and up in almost volcanic fashion. My own guess is that the population of users is much larger than the DEA is led to believe." Yet the debate caused some news executives to ponder whether they were having unintended impact. Acknowledged ABC News Senior Vice President Richard Wald: "Has the press hyped the drug story? Piece by piece, no. But the cumulative fact of everybody paying attention to the same story at the same time certainly has a heightening effect...