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...transmutation. However, far more tangible are the marvelous moments in which Newman’s work succeeds, conveying in prose both vivid and dreamy the physiognomy of botanicals, the silence beneath seas, and the sounds of fountains whose tones vary slightly from that of rain. It is rare for a text to be lovely, lilting, and dealing in love, without ever lapsing into the saccharine. “Azorno” is hard to pick up and put down—not simply because the maze is hard to enter again until it has already been read through once...
...facing the quarterback position on the Harvard football team. Not only does it allude to this season’s competition for the starting spot, but it also captures the spirit of the position. More so than pop singers, Crimson quarterbacks evoke an American ethos. The job requires a rare blend of intelligence, skill, and moxie to be a leader among many future leaders. To demand such proficiency in one individual is almost unfair, but each fall the Crimson does just that in naming a starting quarterback...
...breathing space for a department that has long complained about its cramped headquarters. But organizers for a new departmental program behind it hope the room will fill up very quickly. The room comes courtesy of the recently-formed Lab for Economic Applications and Policy—a rare splurge amidst the University’s belt tightening—which was formed to promote the use of economics research in crafting public policy. “I want LEAP to be the place policy makers come to get evidence,” said Economics Professor Raj Chetty, who helped found...
...Movie buffs might appreciate this, because when Beck gets rolling on a particularly emotional riff, when the tears glisten and the shoulders shudder, Paddy Chayefsky, the great leftist playwright, looks like a prophet. He's the man who coined the phrase that, according to Luntz, is the rare thing Americans can agree on. He gave the line to Howard Beale, the mad anchorman at the center of the dark satire Network...
Last night the Harvard Political Union, an outreach subgroup of the Institute of Politics, brought together the leaders of six other campus ethnic organizations to discuss and debate the state of race relations on Harvard’s campus. For many audience members, the event was a rare coming together of the usually disparate segments of Harvard’s active ethnic communities to discuss one of the most controversial issues in public life. Among the groups represented were the student associations for Harvard’s black, Chinese, Asian American, South Asian and Latin American communities...