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...Theda Skocpol, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, counts herself as an occasional reader, but cautioned that “information and misinformation can travel on the blog...
...firm who was ranked the country's sixth-richest person with stock worth $58 million. A prominent law professor speculated that miffed tycoons might be able to sue for invasion of privacy. Even ordinary citizens were affronted. "A person's assets should be his private secret," wrote one VNExpress reader on the news outlet's website...
...wouldn’t call myself an avid reader of non-fiction, and judging by the title, I wasn’t expecting Paul M. Barrett’s “American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion” to be a page turner. Not wanting to be a clichéd judger of book covers, I opened Barrett’s book—but with less than a healthy dose of enthusiasm. I’m not afraid to admit when I’m wrong. Though not without its share of flaws...
...fiction. “I wanted to get honest feedback,” she says. As a result, her peers extensively criticized the main character, not knowing it was Hellman herself. Although it may be difficult to listen to criticism, Eleanor M. Boudreau ’07 says negative reader feedback is necessary, even if it may be painful. “You have a choice in workshop to make changes or not.” says Boudreau. “Sometimes I don’t agree with what a person says at all. But if they get that...
...literature. Trachtenberg views himself as the descendant of the historical critics of the 1920s who first used cultural criticism to examine photography and, in the process, created the field of American studies as we know it.Unfortunately, he is much more in dialogue with these historians than with the reader. At times the book seems to be infused with ghosts from the past, obscure critics that have been forgotten by everyone except Trachtenberg. Trachtenberg draws upon his immense knowledge of history, culture and art not to answer questions about 19th- and 20th-century American culture, but to raise them. Not only...