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...innumerable encounters that I have had, a deep phobia has grown,” she wrote. “Never in my life have I had to live in these conditions before coming to Harvard, and frankly I think that the University should be absolutely ashamed...For the world-renown[ed] university to simply ignore this problem is unacceptable.” It appeared that at least one Lowell resident thought that the University’s shame should spring from a different source. In an e-mail to the Lowell open list sent less than two hours after...
...encounter until graduate school. “This is probably the most difficult undergraduate math class in the country,” reads a page on the Mathematics Department Web site. While other universities like MIT offer similar, highly competitive courses, Math 55 is singular in its history and renown...
...fiction as he touches upon everything from art to politics. Bunuel mentions how figures like Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, and Charlie Chaplin dressed, drank, and behaved at orgies. The charm of “My Last Sigh” comes from the fiction, as well as the credibility and renown of Bunuel’s friends and foes...
...Sunnis and the July 15 kidnapping of 30 officials from the Iraqi Olympic Committee. Unlike al-Zarqawi, Abu Deraa issued no statements and released no videos, except for a semicomic webcast, available on YouTube, that shows him offering a Pepsi to a camel. Still, his renown has spread beyond Iraq. On Internet bulletin boards he is hailed as a Shi'ite hero. A typical message reads, "Abu Deraa is a hero to all oppressed people on earth, fighting international tyranny of U.S. forces and fighting domestic tyranny...
...sense that he had to accomplish too much in too little time. "First," he says, "I had to make people believe that I'm not Andre 3000, that I am this character. It created a lot of nervous tension." Perhaps, but Benjamin happily allowed his agents to use his renown to get auditions, so he could hardly take offense at the parts he was reading for or the burden of being seen as just another rapper. The noblest solution might have been to stop using his fame. The smartest was to use his fame differently. Benjamin asked his agents...