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...most students, a failing grade in the first-year rite of passage Expository Writing marks the end of a literary career. Not so for Arthur Golden ’78, who overcame this obstacle to author the wildly successful novel Memoirs of a Geisha, which remained on The New York Times Best-Seller List for more than a year...
...Turner Prize nominations have become the British art scene's annual rite of ridicule. Last week's announcement that the shortlist included ceramist Grayson Perry, whose works depict scenes from the life of his alter ego, a woman named Claire, gave the tabloids more than their usual grist for outrage at the state of contemporary art. pornographic potter gunning for ?20,000, screeched the Daily Mail. But the tabs' time might be better spent exploring the cozy relationship between the Turner Prize judges and the nominees. Andrew Wilson, who short-listed Perry, was paid to pen a catalog essay...
...offers beer for just 15¢. "We all got fake IDs the second we joined the sorority," says Krissy Selleck, a marketing major squeezed into a booth with four sorority sisters. "The party scene definitely took a toll on my GPA," says telecom major Anna Kumis. "But it's the rite of passage." Some students, however, are fretting that the school's reputation will hinder another rite of passage--getting a job. "I.U. is a very good academic school," says senior Tyson Picken. "But some companies won't want to hire a guy who comes from the biggest party school. They...
...worker hub in northern Beijing, are deserted. That's no surprise: more than 13,000 people have been quarantined in China's capital to halt the insidious spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and even those not under house arrest have hunkered down at home in a massive rite of self-isolation. But the shacks of Dual Springs have as few people inside as outside. Despite an April 30 governmental edict ordering migrant workers to stay put to prevent them spreading the disease farther into the nation's interior, most of Beijing's outlying shantytowns have emptied as their...
Harvard University is obsessed with tradition—the H-Y Regatta is practically a sacred rite...