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...characters are galley slaves,” Vladimir Nabokov told the Paris Review in 1967—and he was telling the truth. It isn’t difficult to imagine any one of his memorable protagonists as helpless prisoners, each chained to his oar on Nabokov’s ship—Pnin to indifference (against which he cracks), Kimbote to delusion (to which he succumbs), Humbert to lust (which drives him to kidnap and murder). The more forward motion these characters seemed to make, the clearer it became to the reader that they were stuck in the same...
...because of lack of attention by students to their personal safety ignores several key factors at play in this issue. First, the Staff glosses over the substantial role that the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) does and should play in ensuring student safety. Rather than request that HUPD internally review its strategies in campus crime prevention or even encourage HUPD to engage with community members about their needs, the Staff dismisses such steps as the impulses of self-entitled students trying to shift blame away from themselves. Additionally, the Staff implies that students’ late night habits...
...employers, to institute an individual refundable tax credit, and to move toward allowing intra-state policy purchases. The authors wrote that they felt Obama’s health care plan had been scrutinized during the primary season but McCain’s had not been subjected to academic review. “Obama’s plan is more likely, right off the bat, to have more people covered by health insurance,” said Swartz, noting that without regulation only young, healthy people will be able to get insurance coverage. David M. Cutler, a professor of applied economics...
...Originally turned down the job as anchor of PBS' "Washington Week in Review" because she was upset at the abrupt firing of her predecessor, Ken Bode, who left over a disagreement about whether to make "Washington Week" more argumentative. Ifill took the job after executives agreed to keep the show's polite demeanor...
...needed any further evidence of a jaw-dropping double standard, we have to contemplate the sheer impossibility that someone who wrote a positive biography of McCain being chosen to moderate a debate." - the National Review's Jim Geraghty...