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...sifted through these pieces, with a blank Document1 remaining on the computer screen, I became increasingly frustrated. I mean, what do you people want to read about anyway? Another student outlining Harvard's imperfections? Another graduate waxing poetic about all Harvard had taught him or her about some aspect of the meaning of life? Really, at some point or another, I've expressed these thoughts and done these things, a few times in public forums such as this and other times in more private settings like meetings with administrators and senior surveys. It appears that what needs to be said...
...when you see someone hunched over her computer terminal, nose pressed against the screen, don't be alarmed. She may just be trying a free sample...
...year and a half she spent on Joan of Arc. "I had never really written about anybody whose life was a life of action," she said. "I thought that it would give me a chance to describe things that probably wouldn't have naturally come onto my fiction radar screen...
News of Ethiopia's victory in Zalambessa was received with jubilation in the capital, Addis Ababa. Thousands of people gathered in the city's main square and cheered on truckloads of waving Ethiopian soldiers. At the office of the government representative, a computer screen saver read, ZALAMBESSA LIBERATED!! Chief spokeswoman Selome Taddesse popped open a bottle of Ethiopian Champagne as her staff danced to a popular song celebrating past Ethiopian victories. "I've been waiting for this day for two years," said Taddesse...
This story of the 1990 obscenity case over a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit nearly got an NC-17 rating, until the network cut the screen time for Mapplethorpe's haunting, sexually explicit photos. If only it had shown them longer--for 90 minutes, say--and ditched the rest of this mechanical, insultingly didactic placard. James Woods begins playing besieged Cincinnati museum director Dennis Barrie less as a saint than a fish-out-of-SoHo aesthete. But the nuance is soon lost in a film that wants to be an agitprop documentary, interrupting its storyline with interviews of mostly pro-Mapplethorpe notables...