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...Jaspersen, a woman caught between the native Greenland culture of her hunter-tracker mother and the well-appointed world of her Danish father, a physician and scientist. Like Ross Macdonald in his Lew Archer novels of darkest California, Hoeg creates an unfamiliar but palpable world that steadily envelops the reader...
...human history, a woman who seems by all means and standards [to have] lived a life of exceeding integrity and humility,” said Timothy P. McCarthy ’93, a residential tutor in Quincy and lecturer in History and Literature and a coauthor of The Radical Reader, a book documenting the history of the American radical tradition. McCarthy said that Parks will long be remembered as an example for how to live ones life on a daily basis. “Rosa Parks represents the power that is inherent in each individual person to change society...
Warning: This column is intended to induce existential discomfort in the reader. And if it does, I must admit that I will be quite pleased!Why aren’t we all appalled by how many of us take our 17 years or more of education and sell it off to the highest-paying corporate bidder? Perhaps a few of us have excuses for such behavior, but it’s impossible to see the overall trend as anything but morally reprehensible. When you get down to it, the majority of us are coming from comfortable backgrounds and taking comfortable...
Christ the Lord is, as any retelling of Jesus' life must be, cleft: it's both a work of devotion and a work of fiction, and one reads it with a divided mind. The religious reader wants it to hew closely to the known facts and spirit of Jesus' life, to show respect and be plausible. The novel reader wants drama and action. Seven-year-old Jesus is largely the good little kid you would expect, and he makes the novel reader in you a teeny bit impatient. When Jesus bumps into Satan in a fever dream, Satan says...
...larger theoretical framework. The methodical structure of “Taming American Power” makes it easy to read. Walt’s conscientious scholarship may not be as much fun as the snide commentary of Michael Moore or Ann Coulter, but it will leave the reader with a broad understanding of how international power politics works and concrete examples of which American choices have been effective or ineffective. If you want to win a foreign policy argument with a neoconservative, “Taming American Power” will show you how and you might even learn something...