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There could be nobody better suited to describe the hilarious, improbable triumph of Robert Bolańo than Bolańo himself, which is a terrible shame because he's dead. At the time of his death, from liver disease, in 2003, Bolańo was a major writer in the Spanish-speaking world but virtually unknown and untranslated in English. Why that should be is not much of a mystery. Bolańo, who was born in Chile and spent most of his life in Mexico and Spain, is a difficult, angry, self-reflexive writer who lived an erratic and occasionally unpleasant life...
...year will fund the maintenance of the Children’s Home in Bao Ji, Shanxi province, which opened last November. With the help of their major sponsor, the Jenzabar Foundation, the HCC has so far funded surgeries for 40 infants and supported six completed adoptions at this orphanage. Robert A. Maginn, who is the chairman of the Janzabar Foundation, called the fundraiser a “triple win,” benefitting the orphans, the students that participate in helping them, and Harvard College. HCC, the first college branch of a national organization founded by Matthew A. Dalio...
...prioritize a controversial missile shield over calm negotiation. Diplomacy can often work, and President-elect Obama will hopefully engage more countries in level dialogue than his predecessor. The Russians, however, constitute a special case. It is imperative that Obama continue the strong stand taken yesterday by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and refuse to capitulate on this issue...
...This marks a new beginning for a new era of arts at Harvard,” Faust declared. Her announcement stirred widespread excitement in Harvard’s artistic community. “I expect the moon,” theater professor Robert Scanlan said at the time.“Things are happening, with the opening of New College Theatre and the Task Force on the Arts,” Martin Puchner said shortly after the Task Force was announced. Puchner, a professor of comparative literature at Columbia University, spent last year at Harvard, where he received his master?...
...100th meeting of the two teams. In his first career start, sophomore Keiffer Garton ran for the go-ahead touchdown and passed for the game-winner. Named Ivy League offensive player of the week, Penn’s third-string quarterback—filling in for the injured senior Robert Irvin and junior Brendan McNally—went 16-21 for 132 yards while rushing for a team-leading 89 yards on 15 tries.The league’s weekly defensive honor was taken by another Quaker, as senior defensive back Britton Ertman led a suffocating defense that held Tiger Jordan...