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...fiction, Hollinghurst nonetheless has plenty to say about real-life politics then and now. The ’80s saw a “sexualized idolatry of Mrs. Thatcher,” and while Tony Blair’s victory in 1997 finally offered “relief from the Tories” by his liberal Labour party, Blair’s record has become only “a crushing disappointment and a cruel disabusing.”However incensed the armchair, I can’t imagine Hollinghurst ever trading it for the campaign stump. During our conversation...
...hold of their photos for his never completed “Atlas of Women.” After Sheldon fell into disgrace, colleges phased out the practice in the 1960s and ’70s. Most photos have since been destroyed for privacy reasons, much to the relief of alumni including FDR, Meryl Streep, and Hilary Rodham Clinton. Now, the remaining posture pictures reside in the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Playboy apparently wasn’t interested...
...been there. Once again you’ve hit the snooze button one time too many; it’s 9:58, you live along the River Charles, and class is in Science Center—on the fourth floor. But then you breathe a sigh of relief. Thanks to the “7 Minute Rule,” even if the professor starts “on time,” you’ll only be a few minutes late. You could even hit snooze again, if you wanted to. This inane Harvard-specific tradition, whereby classes...
Faced with confusion and inefficiencies in aid efforts after the earthquake that rocked South Asia, Kennedy School Assistant Professor Asim I. Khwaja decided to use the Internet to better organize relief. Khwaja, with collaborators from the World Bank and Pomona College, has created a website that informs relief workers about reports of specific needs from volunteers and villagers in Pakistan. The Relief Information System for Earthquakes-Pakistan (RISE-PAK) puts focus on individual villages that might otherwise be overlooked by relief efforts in the wake of the Oct. 8 earthquake, Khwaja said. Kennedy School student Samia Amin, who helped Khwaja...
...Earthquake Relief Dinner attracted a large crowd to Kirkland Dining Hall on Saturday, raising $3,600 for a Pakistani emergency service organization called the Edhi Foundation. Thirty-four organizations co-sponsored the event, which included speakers, dinner, and information about how to help victims of the Oct. 8 earthquake that devastated South Asia. One of the evening’s speakers, Beena Sarwar, displayed graphic images of orphans and victims of the earthquake who had missing limbs. “The situation in Pakistan is going to be so desperate that I’m going...