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...capsule review of Purple America by Rick Moody (author of The Ice Storm, which was made into a critically acclaimed movie) would seem to condemn it as an example of this type of writing: Billie Raitcliffe has a thing for men who work with radioactivity (personality tic) and a degenerative muscular disease; her husband just left her and she asks her son to euthanize her when her illness gets too severe (societal problem; two, if you count the separation). Hex, her son, has to decide whether he can shoulder the burden of caring for his mother alone (societal problem) even...
...adolescence as she falls into his life "like an influenza." All the while, Hex and Billie are haunted by the infrequent but always searingly memorable references to Hex's dad, long-deceased ex-nuclear scientist. Allen Raitcliffe. Yet somehow the decisions and bizarre events of the evening seem not at all forced or sudden (until the rather weak ending); the Raitcliffe's story seems predestined, foreordained, and the characters are merely performing their inevitable actions according to plan even when they act illogically...
...lineup looks pretty good right now. I think that we have a lot of good doubles players on the team overall so we can all play with each other if we need to," Majmudar said. "I don't think that it will be too much of a problem. We seem to adapt very well, and we have also been expecting to be without [Tom]. That's how we have been practicing...
There are many professors who are excellent teachers of undergraduates, and many professors who are excellent advisers of graduate students. Many times, these are the same faculty members: good teaching and good advising often go together, probably more often than they do not. This may seem remarkable given the time it takes to be an effective teacher and adviser. Commitment to education, however, is often more a limiting factor than time. ADAM P. FAGEN...
...hoped to find that the problem was purely one of communication, not of fundamentally different perspectives. Instead, I discovered that for all of our swimming, Harvard, like the ocean, does not seem to change in response to its students...