Word: rachel
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...Rachel's first breathless call was to her grandparents. "Guess what, I have my own cell phone," exclaimed the cutting-edge fourth-grader through her shiny, tricked-out handset. The perplexed, interstate scowls at other end of the line were easy to envision. "Why do you need that?" retorted her disapproving elders virtually in unison. My nine-year-old didn't have an immediate answer, but instinctively and ineffably, she knew she had arrived...
...wonder after reading “Arlington Park” whether the author, Rachel Cusk, is a penetrating analyst of human psychology—or just an embittered feminist.Whichever category Cusk falls into, her newest novel is certainly perceptive. It is a surprisingly philosophical book in which everyday characters in an everyday setting hint at being deeply symbolic—though it’s difficult to discern what they’re supposed to symbolize.“Arlington Park” follows the lives of five young British housewives through the course of one rainy day and culminates...
...Staff writer Alexandra Hiatt can be reached at ahiatt@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Rachel L. Pollack can be reached at rpollack@fas.harvard.edu...
...Christian B. Flow and Rachel L. Pollack contributed to the reporting of this story...
...every one of them.” Faced with the challenge of fielding a team, Graham contacted Harvard’s club team looking for players. Four new players—junior Vilsa Curto, who is also a Crimson editor, freshman Alejandra Duartre, senior Julia Forgie, and sophomore Rachel Gottlieb—eventually moved up to the varsity squad. Friday morning, these newcomers were thrown against one of the nation’s top teams in the Wildcats (5-0). While the Crimson (0-2) lost 5-2, the match proved the ability of Harvard’s patched together...