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...Crimson, looked at an article or a picture and wondered why on earth it was in the paper? Take, for example, the random picture of a protest in Vancouver that was in last week's newspaper. Or Monday's shot of Whoopi Goldberg waving her hand. One reader referred to these types of pictures as "filler." I think that "filler" is a very good description...
...wonderful way to combat the phenomenon of campus-induced isolation. More people will check out an interesting picture on the Real World page, for example, than will read all the articles. According to Crimson President Joshua J. Schanker '98, The Crimson has made a special effort, in response to reader input, to include more national news, photos and Associated Press stories...
...past because they hope history will repeat itself") and Woody Allen ("I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics"), along with linguist Noam Chomsky, artificial-intelligence guru Marvin Minsky and, of course, Charles Darwin. Pinker has a showman's sense for knowing "when to hold his reader's attention with an illustration or a joke," observed University of Oxford zoologist Mark Ridley in the New York Times Book Review last week. "No other science writer makes me laugh so much...
Interests: Save at least one line for a list in series of avocational interests such as, "Reading, playing guitar, running, and choral singing." Even a brief list rounds out your presentation and may establish an initial bond of common interest with the reader...
...provocative as it promises. Boyhood's narrator, unlike those of other third-person memoirs (such as the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, Class of 1898), never develops a personality distinct from Coetzee's. The third-person voice just allows Coetzee to avoid intimacy with the reader, to talk around himself without adopting a confessional tone...