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...gold standard for treating Type 1 diabetes and consider the debate over animal vs. human insulin a nonissue. Dr. Richard Jackson of the Joslin Diabetes Center questions IDDT's claims and says randomized studies comparing animal and human insulins have shown no additional benefit from using the animal product...
...level of scrutiny not seen since University President Lawrence H. Summers announced his resignation in February. Because we broke the story, The Crimson has received some scrutiny of its own, primarily from those within our community, concerning how we handled the piece. Since our readers see only the finished product of a news article or opinion piece, it is easy to assume that a thoughtful consideration of whether to print the article did not happen behind the scenes. Here I would like to explain to you, the reader, our decision to print the initial story last week...
...recently published chick-lit novel by sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 that first became famous for its singular inception, and then infamous for its not-so-singular authorship. The book’s merits and demerits aside, it is, in many respects, a product of Harvard and a reflection of our community...
Certainly “Opal Mehta” is the product and responsibility of a single individual (well, maybe not single...), but we are all implicated in its creation. We collectively form a system which prizes ambition and performance and calls these things superiority. When the publication of “Opal Mehta” first became known, the $500,000 advance dominated conversation and stimulated admiration and jealousy. The fact that the novel is unabashed chick lit inspired, at most, smiling pseudo-mockery. Harvard turned an indulging blind eye on bad literature and saw only an example of precocious...
Viswanathan shares the copyright for Opal with Alloy Entertainment, a book packager, which develops book ideas, hires writers, then delivers a finished product to publishers. Packagers have been more common in nonfiction--cookbooks, joke books--but Alloy has turned itself into a giant of young-women's fiction. Headed by Leslie Morgenstein, 39, Alloy has put together hit series, including The Clique and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. It's a "fiction factory," as a publishing insider calls it, but one with a well-respected sense of the mercurial girl culture; Alloy's parent company also owns the teen...