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...Harvard after us is like inheriting the Roman Empire after the Antonine dynasty. If you don’t understand the allusion, it’s ok. When we were freshmen, we got it. Likewise, our folders were crimson, not red, Cambridge never had weather below 70 degrees, Nobel prize winners wanted to play beer pong with prefrosh, and Harvard had a president whose name alluded to the time of year when the loving sun is closest to the earth. And he would sign dollar bills. Now the new president’s name alludes to a bitter scholar...
...first caught Oldboy at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded the Grand Prix du Jury, or second prize. (Only Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 finished higher, copping the Palme d'Or.) The Jury that year was headed by Quentin Tarantino, and at the closing night ceremony, when Tarantino read out the Old Boy award, he proclaimed that his panel was "delighted" with its choice...
...publicly traded hotelier. Last year IHG earned $399 million in operating profit on sales of $1.6 billion. It has been busily selling off $1.3 billion in real estate while maintaining the management contracts. IHG returned $7.1 billion to shareholders in the past two years, but they want more: its prize properties in Paris, New York City and Rome may also go on the block...
...decade ago, Charles C. Savage ’98 was a Winthrop House English concentrator and publisher of The Harvard Advocate. On Monday, Savage brought in the first national reporting Pulitzer Prize for The Boston Globe in 24 years. In a series of articles, Savage’s reporting showed Bush’s frequent use of “signing statements”—official assertions by the president of his power to ignore certain provisions in laws he deemed unconstitutional. The statements are not confidential but Savage was the first to reveal their systematic...
...heart of “The Savage Detectives,” a book so good that it is not only its own justification, but a justification for literature itself. Due in large part to this novel—the 1998 winner of the prestigious Rómulo Gallegos prize, now available in an English translation by Natasha Wimmer—Bolaño, who died in 2003, became known as the most important and influential novelist in the Spanish-speaking world, a writer mentioned in the same breath as Borges and García Márquez. Unlike the other...