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...Clockwork Orange” had Nadsat—each distorted, disorienting vocabulary a warning of possible ills. In “The Year of the Flood,” her most recent novel and the second in a series of three, Margaret Atwood similarly invents a dictionary for her post-apocalyptic world. But her words are amusing than ominous—the lexicon for a dystopian vision at once entertaining and insubstantial. Atwood’s way with words should come as no surprise. The Canadian author has dozens of works (novels, books of poetry and even a libretto...
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith announced Friday the appointment of State of Massachusetts finance official Leslie A. Kirwan ’79 to the post of FAS dean for administration and finance, effective Nov. 2. In an e-mail announcement, Smith prominently referred to Kirwan's "strong background" in financial management, including a two-year stint as secretary of administration and finance for the commonwealth of Massachusetts, as a crucial quality she brings to her post in an FAS now facing a $110 million deficit. As the secretary of administration and finance under Mass. Governor Deval...
...National Park in Wyoming. He was going on a cross-country trip with a friend before starting a technology internship this fall. According to his sister, Kalmbach was planning to finish his graduation requirements in the spring. Some online commenters have written that Princeton should give him a diploma post mortem in his honor...
...Paul G. Kirk Jr., the Democrats have found themselves a national chairman better than they know - and maybe better than they deserve. If character and ability count for anything in the world of politics ... the Democratic Party is in good hands." - David Broder, in a 1985 Op-Ed (Washington Post...
...industrialization and market economics have brought, had only just begun to spew CO2 into the atmosphere, and it was already the No. 1 emitter. If climate change was the great global threat that the doomsayers believed it was and if there was to be a more effective global response post Kyoto (the 1997 treaty that failed, 96-0, in the U.S. Senate), China's emissions were going to have to be dealt with. And Beijing knew it. (See pictures of the world's most polluted places...