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Fitzsimmons said that the committee is generally prompted to check the originality of application essays for a variety of reasons, such as when a reader assigned to a specific geographic region finds similarities between essays from that region...
...turns physical, and Beah’s terse sentences build on one another to recreate the tension of the situation. The fighters on both sides, Beah says, were “dangerous, and brainwashed to kill.” This isn’t an attempt to beat the reader over the head with a political message, but rather a moving description of an army life reminiscent of the Vietnam War—filled with drug use and instructions to ignore the safety on a gun. One soldier even imitates Rambo, covering his face with mud and asking to take...
There’s nothing less satisfying than a bad ending to a mystery novel—except one with no ending at all, only themes strewn about everywhere and an excessively long and unnecessary line of accusations made at an innocent and unknowing reader. It seems that in “Angelica,” the latest novel from Arthur Phillips ’90, the plot builds to such a point that there is nowhere to go but to a tragic stand-still. Perhaps that’s why he recycles the plot three times from the perspective...
...counterpart—Harvard University Men in Business. I cannot believe most Harvard students would think that was acceptable. I dare say Drew G. Faust (soon to be Harvard’s most powerful official, gender aside) would chime in on the affair. I will leave it to the reader to ponder the implications of Harvard’s “Women’s Center...
Really? What is that one chance? He offers no specific vision, only this general yet urgent endorsement of unification. But the reader should forgive Mak this halfhearted attempt to pull a foreign-affairs moral from his history lesson. The book is not a call for unity, but a call for peace. It is a testament to Mak's warmth and skill as a writer that even in a chronicle of unrelenting barbarity he has portrayed a humanity worth saving...