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...most effective arm-twisters. "I wouldn't be bugging my parents so much when I'm bored," said Derrick. "My parents would be happy that I don't have to borrow their phones anymore," said Nick, 11, gleeful as he casually set the phone's calendar alert to remind him of his birthday until he turns...
...Flags of Our Fathers,” “Letters” shows that, at its core, war is not about sides, but about people. Despite holding differing convictions, Japanese and American soldiers are fundamentally the same: both vulnerable and afraid, both with mothers who remind their sons to “do what is right because it is right...
...grief over his father’s death, but partly because there are so many characters—brothers, sisters, cousins, in-laws—none of these imagined glimpses into their lives go anywhere or feel very satisfying. Things take a turn for the better—and remind the reader that other people’s families can actually be interesting—about a third of the way in, beginning with “The Wilds of Morris Township,” a story that reproduces an extensive passage from the recollections of a mid-nineteenth-century...
...week-long IIHF World Championship in the Winnipeg area, where the Americans hope to defend their first-ever world title, earned when they outlasted Canada in a shootout in 2005. Before that, the Stars and Stripes had claimed eight straight silvers at worlds. “I want to remind you of an often overlooked fact—we’re the defending world champions,” said Dave Ogrean, the executive director of USA Hockey, on yesterday’s call. “While we did not end up in [Turin] with the kind of medal...
Students in the Adams House dining hall can ignore the noise of people eating and remind themselves of jazz and blues by looking at the newest painting on the wall. A portrait of music scholar Eileen Jackson Southern was unveiled yesterday night in an event sponsored by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations and the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW). In 1976, Southern became the first black woman to receive tenure at Harvard. She held a joint appointment in the Music Department and in the Afro-American Studies Department, which she chaired from 1975 to 1979. Knafel...