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...site in cyberspace. Few book lovers would forgo entirely the joys of browsing an actual bookstore, but Amazon offers considerable pleasures of its own. The site is so fast and responsive it almost feels alive; it's thrilling to have every title in the language at your fingertips, and reader-produced reviews add a layer of egalitarian interactivity. In the past year everyone from Business Week to the New Yorker has sung Amazon's praises. Bill Gates buys books there, and he doesn't even own the company...
What would happen is that I began reading the papers differently, as if the news story were an outline or sketch of a deeper (more crafted and layered) story that was being withheld from the reader and at the same time invited the reader's imagination to fill in the blanks. The stories in the news were no less interesting than the Oates story about Swimmers or Conroy's story about the curse of a mad father, but they were bare bones, hints. How could they be otherwise? If reporters had the license of artists, one would have been able...
...even provided background for the many jokes which he quoted in the piece. It clearly took a thorough knowledge of Boston politics to cover that event, which included many subtle comic references to recent local events. Burnes, who is from the local area, obviously knows his stuff. As the Reader Representative, I am happy to see that this event was covered by someone with such knowledge...
...Julia McLaughlin, challenged the existing quota system at the exams school and won her case, prompting a change in the admissions process. The Boston Latin admissions case was settled a year ago, and there have been no new developments for at least a few months. To an unsuspecting Harvard reader, the coverage of this event that happened a year ago as a news story was extremely misleading. The author writes, "The McLaughlin case has spawned renewed debate over affirmative action." To my knowledge, the McLaughlin case has not been a topic of conversation or large-scale media coverage for more...
...Reader Representative, who is not a Crimson editor, may be reached by e-mail (eckley@fas.harvard.edu) or by leaving a telephone message at The Crimson...