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While many students used the snow days to relax indoors or frolic in the snow, dozens of Harvard students volunteered at Cambridge’s four Red Cross centers set up to deal with the weather emergency...
While many students used the snow days to relax indoors or frolic in the snow, dozens of Harvard students volunteered at Cambridge’s four Red Cross centers set up to deal with the weather emergency...
Roger Angell, by contrast, comes from the magazine writer's school of sportswriting: calm, meditative, not deadline driven or space cramped, free to follow the fast-and-slow, squeeze-and-relax rhythms of the game. His new book, Game Time (Harcourt; 398 pages), is a collection of pieces written for the New Yorker. Culled from 40 years and around a million words of baseball writing, they have a certain aged, triple-distilled quality: each one has the internal complexity of a novel. Angell likes to skirt the edges of the diamond: he keeps a lonely big-league scout company...
Shanghai likes to play by its own rules. But the city's unilateralist approach to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) puzzles a senior hospital administrator from Shanghai's Huangpu district. A month ago, visiting experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) said Shanghai would relax its superstringent standards for diagnosing suspected SARS patients to conform with international norms. That should have caused the city's tiny caseload of suspected SARS patients to increase substantially. But just a couple of days after the WHO's announcement, the hospital administrator was curtly informed by local health-bureau officials that the standards would...
...this all sounds shrewdly (if not cynically) calculating, relax?Murakami has no qualms about being calculating. Few artists this side of Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons (both of whom Murakami counts as major influences) have spent as much time strategizing their careers, calibrating their output according to the laws of supply-and-demand?all the while keeping an eye on how the mandarins of culture perceive their mercantilist ways. (Is he a sellout? Is it art? Are such distinctions even relevant anymore? These are questions that fuel Murakami's career.) Murakami purposely engineers a neo-Pop Art universality...